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CalGIS

two thousand and seven

oakland, california april 4 to 6, 2007

the value of gis

www.calgis.org

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Welcome Welcome to the 2007 California GIS Conference! The theme of this year’s conference is “The Value of GIS” and we believe you will find this conference invaluable. It has been my pleasure to serve as Chair for this non-profit, volunteer produced, non-vendor specific California GIS conference. I want to thank all of you for attending and making the conference a rewarding learning experience. This has been a team effort by our CalGIS 2007 Committee, BAAMA, the host URISA Chapter, the other co-sponsor California URISA chapters, many volunteers and great sponsors, and our conference manager. We have assembled a broad range of peer-to-peer presentations, panel discussions, poster displays, introductory classes on GIS and remote sensing, and Gold sponsor workshops for you to participate in this year. Again, this year we are including the “Geography Bee”, several receptions, a poster competition, raffles, and more. Please take time to visit and thank our sponsors for helping sustain the CalGIS conference. Our Opening guest speaker on Wednesday morning is David Sonnen, a geospatial visionary who will set the stage for the conference by discussing some of the emerging technologies that may significantly affect the way we apply GIS in the future. Our Closing Friday brunch will feature four guest speakers. With the increasing recognition that Mashup-Virtual Globe technologies are changing the way we GIS practitioners do business, three guest speakers will discuss aspects of their respective Mashup-Virtual Globe technologies: Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for NASA World Wind Aric Weiker, Director of Marketing for the Microsoft Virtual Earth platform business Michael T. Jones, Chief Technology Officer, Google Earth Our fourth guest speaker will be Sean Walsh, Senior Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Walsh is involved in numerous strategic policy initiatives and will present a State perspective. Thanks for joining us at CalGIS 13! Bill Clement, Conference Chair 2007 CalGIS Conference

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Guest Speakers Sean Walsh Senior Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger As senior advisor to the Governor, Mr. Walsh is involved in numerous strategic policy initiatives including the Governor’s ambitious 20 billion dollar public private partnership initiative, public safety proposals and interaction with the United States Military on issues that support our national security and economic relationship with the Department of Defense. He currently serves as Chair of the Governor’s Interagency Council on Chronic Homelessness. Prior to Mr. Walsh’s appointment to senior advisor, he served as the director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR).

Patrick Hogan Project Manager for NASA World Wind Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for NASA World Wind, is a former pilot, deep-sea diver, and high school science teacher, and a current Registered Geologist in the State of California. He has managed the NASA Learning Technologies program for four years, after a dozen years with the NASA environmental, health and safety office at Ames Research Center and some time with the EPA and the Geotech industry.

Aric Weiker Director of Marketing for Microsoft Virtual Earth Aric Weiker is the Director of Marketing for the Virtual Earth platform business. He is a 12-year Microsoft employee who recently returned to the Virtual Earth team after spending the past 5 years as a Business Development Manager for Windows. He got his start at Microsoft building maps for the first versions of Streets & Trips, MapPoint and Encarta Virtual Globe and then striking licensing deals with map data vendors. He holds an MBA from the University of Washington and a BA from the University of Colorado.

Michael T. Jones Chief Technology Officer for Google Earth Michael is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Keyhole (recently acquired by Google), which provides the unique Google Earth service for distributed geospatial visualization to users worldwide. He is a popular technical presenter, an inventor with eleven issued US patents, a director on private company boards, and an associate in several interesting Silicon Valley projects. He was formerly President & CEO of Intrinsic Graphics, Director of Advanced Graphics Software at Silicon Graphics responsible for OpenGL, Performer and all other graphics APIs, co-founder of a movie coloring company, and a computer graphics consultant during the 1980s. He has been a computer programmer since the fourth grade. In his personal life, Michael is a supporter and advocate of the Gigapxl Project with the ambition to preserve all 788 UNESCO World Heritage sites using the unique visual capabilities of the Gigapxl cameras. Michael is an avid photographer active in digital photography of landscapes, nature, architecture, and travel.

Dave Sonnen Contributing Editor at Directions Magazine, and President of Integrated Spatial Solutions, Inc. Dave Sonnen is a Contributing Editor at Directions Magazine, and President of Integrated Spatial Solutions, Inc. David has been involved in the Spatial Information Management marketplace for more than 28 years and has been IDC's senior consultant for spatial information management since 1991. His IDC Spatial Information Management reports are widely regarded as the industry's most accurate and influential source for thoughtful leadership with a focus on emerging geospatial trends and technologies. His experiences include the design, implementation, management and marketing of spatial and other large-scale information systems.

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Program At-A-Glance Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Contents

7:00 am

Registration Opens: Hosted by: Google

1

Welcome

2

Guest Speakers

8:00 – 9:30 am

General Session and Opening Keynote

3

Program At-A-Glance

9:30 – 10:30 am

Educational Session 1

4/5

Wednesday Sessions

10:30 – 11:00 am

Networking Break – Exhibit Hall

6/7

Thursday Sessions

11:00 – 12:00 noon

Educational Session 2

8

Friday Session

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm

Lunch on your own – Explore Downtown Oakland

8

Special Events

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Educational Session 3

8

Sponsor Ads

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Break – Exhibit Hall

9

Downtown Oakland

3:00 – 4:00 pm

Interactive Poster Session 5 – Exhibit Hall

10

Sponsor List

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Educational Session 4

11

Conference Floor Plans

5:00 – 6:30 pm

Welcome Reception

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Off-site “FourFour” Social

9:30 am – 6:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

12/13 Sponsor Descriptions 14/15 Speaker Cross-Reference List 16-29 Abstracts 30/31 2007 Planning Committee 32

Sponsor Ad

Thursday, April 5, 2007

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13 years of Cal GIS

8:30 am

Registration Opens

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2008 Cal GIS Conference

8:30 – 10:30 am

Gold Sponsor Sessions

9:30 – 10:30 am

Educational Session 6

10:30 – 11:00 am

Networking Break – Exhibit Hall Hosted by Caltrans

11:00 – 12:00 noon

Educational Session 7

12:00 noon – 1:30 pm

Networking Lunch (box lunch provided) – Exhibit Hall

Conference Hours

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Educational Session 8

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Networking Break – Exhibit Hall Hosted by CDM

Wednesday, April 4, 2007 7:00 am – 6:30 pm

3:30 – 5:00 pm

Educational Session 9

5:00 – 7:00 pm

Networking Reception – Exhibit Hall

5:30 – 6:30 pm

Geography Bee – Exhibit Hall

8:30 am – 7:00 pm

Exhibit Hall Open

Friday, April 6, 2007 9:00 am – 12 noon

Closing Brunch and Guest Speakers Exhibit Hall Close

General Information If you need any assistance please let us know at the Registration/Information Desk.

Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:30 am – 7:00 pm Friday, April 6, 2007 9:00 am – 12 noon

Exhibit Hall Hours Wednesday, April 4, 2007 9:30 am – 6:30 pm Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:30 am – 7:00 pm

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

7:00 - 8:00 COFFEE

8:00 - 9:30 GUEST SPEAKERS: Jewett Ballroom David Sonnen IDC The Future of GIS

K Keynote Simmons 3&4

Time

GIS Profession W-01-930, ID: 99 GIS Professional Certification and GISCI RuthAnne Harbison City of Merced

9:30 to 10:30

Room 208

Room 202

Room 203

Geospatial Data W-02-930, ID: 52 Creative Commons and Geographic Information Systems Blair Adams City County of San Francisco

GIS and Utility Management W-03-930, ID:14 Bridging the GAP between CAD and GIS Colin Hobson Open Spatial Inc.

GIS Integration and Innovation W-04-930, ID: 98 Web based mapping Eric Waldman Microsoft Virtual Earth Team

W-02-1000, ID: 30 Revealing the AT&T CA & NV (GIS West) Spatial Data Infrastructure Malcolm Adkins Michael Baker Jr

W-03-1000, ID: 154 The Value Of GIS In A Mid-sized Engineering Firm: Bridging The Gap Gavin O'Leary Provost & Pritchard Engineering, Inc

W-04-1000, ID: 94 Extending Your GIS with Open Source Charlie Crocker Autodesk

Session

1

Morning Break 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 to 12:00

GIS in Education W-01-1100, ID: 142 GIS for the Lower Division Geography Lab William Harmon Ohlone College

GIS Technology W-02-1100, ID: 170 Spatial Information Resource Management: Reframing GIS Standards & Policies Brian J. Cullis CH2MHill

GIS and Utility Management W-03-1100, ID: 139 Improving the Accuracy and Completeness of Utility Data at MCAS Miramar David S. Johnson Intergraph

GIS Integration and Innovation W-04-1100, ID: 84 Easy, Fast, and Convenient: Adopting Web Application Metrics to Develop Innovative Geospatial Applications Dennis Wuthrich Farallon Geographics

W-01-1130, ID: 80 Digital Elevation Models - Creating and Use in the Classroom Nathan Jennings American River College

W-02-1130, ID: 42 Accurate Vineyard Mapping for Precision Agriculture M. Kim Cordell Ray Carlson & Associates, Inc.

W-03-1130, ID: 132 Using GIS and a Database Application to improve Stormwater Management in SD Bay Rick Hendrickson RBF Consulting

W-04-1130, ID: 87 Developing Web Applications with Public and Freely Available APIs Alexei Peters Farallon Geographics

Session

2

12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH (on your own)/Vendor Exhibits

1:30 to 3:00 Session

3

Enterprise GIS W-01-130, ID: 109 GIS in the organization John Huie Contra Costa County

Geospatial Data GIS and Utility Management W-02-130, ID: 155 W-03-130, ID: 136 Spatial Reconciliation: How I put myself out GIS-Based Utility Master Planning at San of a job Diego State University: A Case Study Gloria Humble Douglas Henstridge City of Palo Alto Carter & Burgess, Inc.

GIS Integration and Innovation W-04-130, ID: 103 Lessons Learned with Rapid Deployment of Web Enabling Geodata/Applications at City of San Mateo Patrick Crevelt City of San Mateo

W-01-200, ID: 129 Integrating Spatial Technology Across a State Enterprise Jeff Akers CH2M HILL Enterprise Management Solutions

W-02-200, ID: 146 Migrating basemaps to TeleAtlas: Challenges and data rectification strategies Prashant Jawalikar bd Systems, Inc.

W-03-200, ID: 124 Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Substructure Utility Database at LAX Mike Sabbatino Carter & Burgess

W-04-200, ID: 127 Synergy Between DFIRM Updates and HAZUS®MH Assessment for Orange County, CA Ray Lenaburg FEMA

W-01-230, ID: 75 "GI What?" Ian White Urban Mapping, Inc

W-02-230, ID: 37 A Prioritized California Spatial Data Infrastructure Malcolm Adkins Michael Baker Jr.

W-03-230, ID: 79 Call Before You Dig! – The Role of GIS in Locating Facilities in the Field Eszter Tompos PG&E

W-04-230, ID: 107 GIS in DoC - It's More Than Just Paper Maps Robert Yoha California Department of Conservation

Enterprise GIS W-01-330, ID :25 Estimating GIS Return On Investment: the Empirical Way Bruce Joffe GIS Consultants

Geospatial Data W-02-330, ID: 130 GIS Data Quality Management Shortcomings, Failings of the GIS Community Craig Gooch Psomas

GIS and Utility Management W-03-330, ID: 7 The Big Payback: Utility TV results on Intranet web GIS Bill Clement Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

GIS Integration and Innovation W-04-330, ID: 141 Avalanche Hazards on MT Shasta David Patterson US Forest Service

W-01-400, ID: 118 Qui est Roi de la Monarchie? Fred Vogler Marin County Community Development Agency

W-02-400, ID: 97 Custom Tools Used for Workflow Management and QA Processes in a Digital Landbase Mark Morrison Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.

W-03-400, ID: 4 Implementing a GIS for a Recycled Water Utility Tim Hayes City of San Jose Environmental Services Department

W-04-400, ID: 74 Google Earth Enterprise Implementation at Caltrans Roger Ewers California Department of Transportation

W-01-430, ID: 123 Finding Your Spatial Return on Investment in Local Government Stephen Hoffman Intergraph

W-02-430, ID: 153 GeoSync: Low Cost Tool to Extract, Geocode and Load Spatial Data Satinder Bhalla bd Systems,Inc

W-03-430, ID: 34 Accessing Information Stored In Maximo Using ArcReader Bill Tucker Santa Clara Valley Water District

W-04-430, ID: 73 Explorations in Immersive 1:1 Scale 3-d mapping Brian B. Quinn City of Berkeley

W-Poster-300, ID:12 Unlocking Intrazonal Travel Activities with GIS in Vehicular Emissions Modeling Peng Wu Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

W-Poster-300, ID:47 West Nile Virus Surveillance for Santa Clara County in 2006 Dr. Noor S. Tietze Santa Clara County Vector Control District

W-Poster-300, ID:51 Identifying San Joaquin County Census Tracts With Late Prenatal Care Using GIS Karen Pfister San Joaquin County Public Health Services

W-Poster-300, ID: 147 GIS analysis of potential future renewable energy generation Mui Lay University of California, Davis

W-Poster-300, ID:43 Utilizing GIS and Traffic Collision Data to Characterize Safe Routes to School Kevin Meconis Riverside County Department of Public Health

W-Poster-300, ID:50 Centerline Map of San Francisco Michael Webster San Francisco State University

W-Poster-300, ID:57 Neighborhood-level built and social environments and physical inactivity Riti Shimkhada University of California, Los Angeles

W-Poster-300, ID:60 Coccidioidomycosis in LA County: Spatial relationships with construction Peter Capone-Newton MD Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

W-Poster-300, ID:81 Mapping Streetlights with ArcGIS Elizabeth Proctor PG&E

W-Poster-300, ID:92 3D Viewing of GIS layers and DEMs to Improve Mapping Jim Ellis Ellis GeoSpatial

W-Poster-300, ID: 100 Applied GIS: Mapping Environmental Health Data Galatea King California Environmental Health Tracking Program

W-Poster-300, ID:106 Contemporary Environmental Conservation in San Diego County, California Melanie Casey County of San Diego, Dept of Planning and Land Use

Afternoon Break 3:00 - 3:30

3:30 to 5:00 Session

4

Exhibit Hall

3:00 to 4:00 Session

5 (Posters)

W-Poster-300, ID: 168 W-Poster-300, ID: 169 Geospatial Wine Grape Quality Modeling and GIS-Supported Environmental Due Differential Harvest for Precision Ag Diligence of over 900,000 Acres of Balaji Sethuramasamyraja Timberlands California State University, Fresno Greg Stemler Geomatrix Consultants

W-Poster-300, ID: 171 W-Poster-300, ID: 178 Using Climate Maps in Olive Fly Management "Soils to Go" for Cooperative Extension: Decisions Providing Soils Maps on DVD and the Kris Lynn-Patterson Internet U.C. Kearney Ag Center Jerry Schmierer University of California

5:00 - 6:30 Evening Reception

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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

7:00 - 8:00 COFFEE

GUEST SPEAKERS: Jewett Ballroom David Sonnen IDC The Future of GIS

Room 204 GIS Applications W-05-930, ID: 149 Community Impact Assessment using a GIS Gary Lasky Caltrans

Room 205

Room 206

Geospatial Data W-06-930, ID: 187 Panel Discussion: Acquiring, Processing, and Using LiDAR Data

Moderator: Maegan Leslie Green Info Network

Moderator: Jim Ellis Ellis Geospatial W-05-1000, ID: 121 Infill Development Planning using GIS Modeling with Parcel Information Gaps Doug Mende Psomas

GIS in Public Policy W-07-930, ID: 188 Panel Discussion: GIS and Land Trusts

Panelists: Tom Scharfenberger, Conservation Consultant Ruskin Hartley, Executive Director, Save the Redwoods League Laura Mercer, Tri-Valley Conservancy

Panelists: Randy Rhoads, Airborne 1 Corporation Devin Kelley, HJW GeoSpatial Matt Sagues, Marin County Open Space District, GIS Analyst Rune Storesund, Storesund Consulting

Simmons 1&2

Exhibit Hall

GIS in Agriculture W-08-930, ID: 205 The Benefits of Enlisting Interdisciplinary Teams to Develop High Order GIS Projects Reg Parks Parks Vineyard Trellis Systems

W-08-1000, ID: 186 Implemention of Geospatial Technologies in U.C. Cooperative Extension: Challenges, Successes Maggi Kelly U.C. Berkeley

Morning Break 10:30 - 11:00 GIS Applications W-05-1100, ID: 145 Using GIS to Identify Infill Housing Opportunities in the City of Los Angeles Dave Van Mouwerik IGIS Technologies, Inc

Geospatial Data W-06-1100, ID: 112 An Overview of the Benefits and Uniqueness of LiDAR Terrain Data for Regional Mapping Projects Devin Kelley HJW GeoSpatial, Inc

GIS in Public Policy W-07-1100, ID: 189 Panel Discussion: Web GIS for Health and Environmental Justice

W-05-1130, ID: 38 Finding and Envisioning Viable Urban Development Neighborhoods Earl G. Bossard San Jose State University

W-06-1130, ID: 95 Incorporating LiDAR Data into City of San José Workflows Vicky A Gallardo City of San José

Moderator: Mike Byrne Office of Statewide Planning and Health Panelists: Neal Richman, Neighborhood Knowledge California Janine Kupert, United Way of the Bay Area Don Taylor, California Children and Families Commission

GIS in Agriculture W-08-1100, ID: 173 Rapid Non-destructive Detection of Vine Water Status Using Spectra Water Absorption Feature in the Near-infrared Susan Ustin, U.C. Davis

W-08-1130, ID: 202 Application of SEBAL for Improved Water Management in Agriculture, Natural resurces and Urban Environments Byron Clark, SEBAL North America

12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH (on your own)/Vendor Exhibits

GIS Applications W-05-130, ID: 138 Mobile GIS and Tablet PC - Benefits and Lessons Han Chu Psomas

GIS in Environmental Management W-06-130, ID: 190 Panel Discussion: Overview of GIS and Environmental Protection Moderator: Larry Orman Green Info Network

W-05-200, ID: 101 Planning With GPS David Jacobus RBF Consulting

Panelists: Bettina Ring, Bay Area Open Space Council Carey Knecht, Greenbelt Alliance Rainer Hoenicke, San Francisco Estuary Institute

GIS in Health W-07-130, ID: 122 Mapping a Measure of HIV Acquisition Risk in San Diego County Rebecca L. Horne California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS

GIS in Agriculture W-08-130, ID: 175 Mapping Vineyard Water Balance Lee Johnson, CSU Monterrey Bay, NASA Ames

W-07-200, ID: 89 Annual Changes in Community Risk Factors and Characteristics Don Taylor California Department of Education

W-08-200, ID: 174 Commercial Use of Images by the End User in Agriculture Tim Stone Britz Fertilizer

W-05-230, ID: 19 Mobile GIS- A Railway Corridor Environmental Analysis Melisa Caric PBS&J

W-06-230, ID: 22 W-07-230, ID: 110 Using GIS to more accurately and efficiently Promoting the value of GIS: California address the CEQA Guidelines Department of Health Services experience Chad Flynn Svetlana Smorodinsky Christopher A. Joseph & Associates California Department of Health Services

GIS Applications W-05-330, ID: 150 Quickly Conveying Useful Information To Your Audience Megan Sayles URS Corporation

GIS in Environmental Management W-06-330, ID: 31 Monitoring Riparian Areas with Remote Sensing Techniques Donald G. Price Pacific Gas and Electric Company

GIS Applications W-07-330, ID: 125 Using Google Maps to Present Enviornmental Health Data Melvin S. Bernstein Alameda County

W-05-400, ID: 49 Imagery and GIS in the legal environment David Ruiz HJW Geospatial

W-06-400, ID: 32 Integrating GIS and remote sensing to map San Francisco Estuary salt marshes Karin Tuxen University of California, Berkeley

W-07-400, ID: 44 Mapping Tire Piles with Satellites Saves California Agency Time and Money Catherine Huybrechts Endpoint Environmental, LLC

W-05-430, ID: 133 Using KML Regions to Display Large Data Sets in Google Earth Roger Andre Google

W-06-430, ID: 116 Spatial Analysis of Selenium in the Salton Sea Seth Stark CH2M Hill

W-07-430, ID: 17 GIS for Wine Country Restoration and Water Reuse Jonathan Posner CDM

W-Poster-300, ID:61 Mapping Nonnative Aquatic Plants with an Image-processing Algorithm Catherine Huybrechts Endpoint Environmental

W-Poster-300, ID:72 Problems Encountered With Two Geocoding Methods Colleen Reid UC Berkeley

W-Poster-300, ID:77 The Evolving Use and Creation of PG&E's Electrical System Map Michael Allen PG&E

W-Poster-300, ID: 140 Examining the Distribution of Monodominant (Dicymbe corymbosa) Tropical Forests in Guyana with Satellite Imagery Rebecca Degagne, Humboldt State University

W-Poster-300, ID:70 Feather River ArcIMS Patrick J. Parsons Department of Water Resources, State of California

W-Poster-300, ID:76 Creating Exhibit G Drawings that Meet FERC Standards Brandon Oberbauer PG&E

W-Poster-300, ID:78 Monitoring Sedimentation in PG&E Reservoirs – Bathymetric Study Eszter Tompos PG&E

W-Poster-300, ID: 137 Supporting California Healthcare: Using GIS in the Enterprise Michael O'Neill CA Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development

W-Poster-300, ID: 58 Risk of Childhood Leukemia and Brain Tumors Chris Hooper Enertech Consultants

W-Poster-300, ID: 126 Variations in Pipeline Diameter by County Yara Jasso CDM

W-Poster-300, ID: 161 Pediatric Health in Santa Clara County: Challenges and Opportunities Leah Vaughn Santa Clara County Department of Public Health

W-Poster-300, ID: 108 San Mateo County Fire Jurisdiction Map Jie He San Mateo County

W-Poster-300, ID: 199 Using GIS to Identify Potential Cooridors Used by North American Badgers in the SF Bay Area and Monterey Counties Tanya Diamond San Jose State University

W-Poster-300, ID: 200 Contra Costa Emergency Services within Quake Zones Catrina Christian Diablo Valley College

W-Poster-300, ID: 201 An Urban Oasis in the Woods: A GIS Analysis Michael Webster San Francisco State University

W-08-230, ID: 204 NDVI Use In Viticulture Jay Hutton Grayhawk

Exhibit Hall Hours 9:30 - 6:30

Afternoon Break 3:00 - 3:30 GIS in Agriculture W-08-330, ID: 191 The Value of Spatial Statistics in Agriculture Konstantin Krivoruchko ESRI

Exhibit Hall

5:00 - 6:30 Evening Reception

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Thursday, April 5, 2007 8:30 - 9:30

BREAKFAST Simmons 3&4

Time

GIS Policy and Programs Th-01-830, ID:104 Panel Discussion: Parcel Basemap Geodata: Resolving the Public Records Controversy Moderator: Bruce Joffe GIS Consultants

Room 208

Room 202

GIS Technology Th-02-830, ID: 193 Geodatabase: New Flavors, New Capabilities; ArcGIS Server: Comprehensive ServerBased GIS

GIS Technology Th-03-830, ID: 192

Room 203 GIS Technology Th-04-830, ID: 194 Baker Maps California: 163,707 square miles in two-hours

Autodesk

Room 204 GIS Technology Th-05-830, ID: 195 Terrainscapes™ 2007: California NEXTMap® USA for California Geospatial Professionals

Baker Intermap

Danny Krouk & Justin Fan ESRI CA/NV/HI Regional Office

Panelists: Oscar Jarquin, CalTrans Office of GIS John Huie, Contra Costa County Peter Scheer, California First Amendment Coalition

8:30 to 10:30 Session

6

Th-01-930, ID:105 Panel Discussion: Digital Parcel Map Data Sharing Standards Issues and Remedies Moderator: Dennis Klein Boundary Solutions John Ellison, California Resource Agency Dr. James F. Quinn, UC Berkeley

Morning Break 10:30 - 11:00

11:00 to 12:00

GIS Policys and Programs Th-01-1100, ID: 28 Planning a Successful and Practical Enterprise GIS Karen Underhill, Ph.D., GISP RBF Consulting

Geospatial Data Th-02-1100, ID: 67 Herding Cats and the Use of Catnip For Building Inter-Agency Collaboration Eric Sandoval, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

GIS and Public Safety Th-03-1100, ID: 160 Wildfire Risk Information Product Marcus Glass Sanborn Mapping Company

GIS Integration and Innovation Th-04-1100, ID: 170 Spatial Information Resource Management: Reframing GIS Standards & Policies Brian J. Cullis CH2MHill

GIS Applications Th-05-1100, ID: 16 Travel Time: An Empirical Method for Determining Average Network Speeds James M. Johnston Michael Baker Jr. Inc.

Th-01-1130, ID: 131 GIS Development Through Collaborative Government Partnerships Tony Pietropola Geodecisions

Th-02-1130, ID: 65 ADA Transition Planning Using GIS for Decision Support George White Policy Innovation Works

Th-03-1130, ID: 63 Moraga-Orinda Fire District - Wildland Risk Assessment Chris Hallford Moraga Orinda Fire District

Th-04-1130, ID: 9 The Value of GIS/CAD Integration Jason Hill Ideate Inc.

Th-05-1130, ID: 128 Bay Area Business Park Catalog Steve Raney Cities21.org

Session

7

12:00 - 1:30 BOX LUNCH/Vendor Exhibits

1:30 to 3:00 Session

8

Innovative Enterprise GIS Th-01-130, ID: 86 Squeezing Value From Your Enterprise Geodatabase Adam Lodge Farallon Geographics

GIS Applications Th-02-130, ID: 144 Delivering Documents – GIS for Low Cost Document Management Jean-Paul Lavoie Geodesy

GIS and Public Safety Th-03-130, ID: 53 The Next Big One: Mitigating Catastrophe with GIS John Radke University of California, Berkeley

GIS Integration and Innovation Th-04-130, ID: 113 Real-time, Real-world Location-enabled Service Oriented Architectures Justin M. Lokitz Acquis, Inc.

GIS Applications Th-05-130, ID: 119 Use of GIS in Mapping Levee Foundation Materials - Sacramento Delta Region Christopher Hitchcock William Lettis & Associates, Inc.

Th-01-200, ID: 198 Panel Discussion: Planning for the Next Generation GIS in Government

Th-02-200, ID: 11 The Intersection of Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems William Holland GeoAnalytics Inc

Th-03-200, ID: 69 GIS-Based Public Warning Art Botterell Contra Costa CountySheriff's Community Warning System

Th-04-200, ID: 91 Mobile (and other) Integration of GIS Data through the use of XML and Services Ian Fitzgerald, GISP Truckee Donner Public Utility District

Th-05-200, ID: 90 Waterway Maintenance and Geospatial Information Thomas Moorhouse Clean Lakes, Inc.

Th-02-230, ID: 21 Putting the Where next to the What and the Why - Geospatial Support for SAP Business Oliver Mainka SAP Labs LLC

Th-03-230, ID: 159 Mapping Planning Points of Dispersion and Populations in Santa Clara County David Hill Santa Clara County Public Health Department

Th-04-230, ID: 24 Connecting the Silos: Adventures in Sharing Geospatial Information John Ellison California Resources Agency

Th-05-230, ID: 162 Integrating High Resolution Imagery with ArcGIS for Urban Water Conservation Andrew Lewis Sanborn Mapping Company

GIS and Public Safety Th-03-330, ID: 164 GIS & Computer Aided Dispatch - Help Where It's Needed Charlie Cullen The City of Palo Alto

GIS Integration and Innovation Th-04-330, ID: 88 Work Order and Service Request Monitoring System at the City of Houston Jon Polay eSpatial

GIS Applications Th-05-330, ID: 66 Steelhead Spawning Sites and Gravel Replenishment: Patterns Within the Carmel Eric Sandoval, Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

Th-03-400, ID: 163 California Tsunami Hazards: Science, Policy, and Management Kevin Miller California Office of Emergency Services

Th-04-400, ID: 82 Conflation-Based Data Integrations Samuel Smith Refractions Research Inc.

Th-05-400, ID: 45 Using web-based GIS in environmental compliance at PG&E Kassim Visram Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Th-03-430, ID: 56 Earthquake Risk Evaluation for Gas Pipelines: Leveraging GIS Integration Gordon Ye Pacific Gas & Electric Company

Th-04-430, ID: 13 A comparison of using map sheets vs databases for storing engineering maps Colin Hobson Open Spatial Inc.

Th-05-430, ID: 35 Environmental Data Presented via ArcIMS Deborah Martin Alameda County Environmental Health Department

Moderator: Malcolm Adkins Michael Baker Jr. Panelists: Blair Adams, City of San Francisco Oscar Jarquin, Caltrans John Huie, Contra Costa County Joe Concannon, SACOG

Afternoon Break 3:00 - 3:30 Innovative Enterprise GIS Th-01-330, ID: 55 Modeling our 3D World with Google Earth and Google SketchUp Wei Luo Google 3:30 to 5:00

GIS Applications Th-02-330, ID: 151 Silver Strike James K. Crossfield Dept. of Civil and Geomaics Engineering and Construction, CSU, Fresno

Th-01-400, ID: 102 Th-02-400, ID: 158 Local Update of Census Addresses Program Wiki GIS: Transition to a Distributed System Linda Akers Craig Parada US Census Bureau

Session

9

Th-02-430, ID: 64 Stereo Feature Mapping using NAIP ADS40 1-meter Imagery Shawn Slade Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging

5:00 - 7:00 Reception in Exhibit Hall 5:30 - 6:30 Geography Bee

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Thursday, April 5, 2007

8:30 - 9:30 BREAKFAST Room 205 GIS Technology Th-06-830, ID: 196

Room 206

Simmons 1&2

GIS Applications

GIS in Agriculture Symposium Th-08-930, ID: 197 Short Course; Part I

TeleAtlas TeleAtlas: GIS Data Summit

Room 210

Exhibit Hall

GIS in Agriculture Symposium

The Value of Remote Sensing for Assessing Vegetation and New Horizon's for Precision Agriculture Th-07-900, ID: 10 Managing Infrastructure Data in Both a CAD & GIS Environment Sandeep Menon Ideate Inc.

Jack Paris, EarthMap Solutions Robert Blair

No Sessions Scheduled

Th-07-930, ID: 134 Local Educative Letters and reorganization of educative net from the use of SIG António Rochette Escola Superior de Educação da Guarda, Portugal Th-07-1000, ID: 135 The use of GIS in territorial valorisation Ana Lopes Escola Superior de Educação da Guarda, Portugal

Morning Break 10:30 - 11:00 Enterprise GIS Th-06-1100, ID: 39 From Shapefile to Enterprise Multi-user Mobile Editing Justin M. Lokitz Acquis, Inc.

GIS in Education Th-07-1100, ID: 40 Online GIS at the Community College Warren Roberts Rio Hondo College

GIS in Agriculture Th-08-1100, ID: 197 Short Course; Part II

Th-06-1130, ID: 85 The Role of Spatially Enabled Databases in Enterprise GIS Jeff Saunders Farallon Geographics

Th-07-1130, ID: 48 Managing a GIS-GPS Certificate Program Binita Sinha Diablo Valley College

Jack Paris, EarthMap Solutions Robert Blair

GIS in Agriculture

The Value of Remote Sensing for Assessing Vegetation and New Horizon's for Precision Agriculture No Sessions Scheduled

12:00 - 1:30 BOX LUNCH/Vendor Exhibits

Enterprise GIS Th-06-130, ID: 165 GIS and Nevada County Government Amber Beckler County of Nevada

Geospatial Data GIS in Agriculture Th-08-130, ID: 178 Th-07-130, ID: 148 Automatic Image Processing and Fusion for Providing Soils Maps for Cooperative Extension Online GIS Applications Jerry Schmierer Jacob Yadegar Colusa County Farm Advisor UtopiaCompression Corporation

GIS in Agriculture Th-09-130, ID: 184 Building a GIS Portal Robin Wood ScanControl

Th-06-200, ID: 96 Th-07-200, ID: 120 Leveraging your Geodatabase as a Business Using Street-level Imagery at the City of System Livermore Garrett Dunwoody Won Yi San Mateo County Assessor @City

Th-08-200, ID: 177 Soil Survey Information from USDA on the Internet Edd Russell USDA NRCS

Th-09-200, ID: 179 Use of GIS Technology for Information Retrieval and Analysis Capabilities for a U.C. Research and Extension Center Greg Montez U.C. Kearney Ag Center

Th-06-230, ID: 8 The Value of New GeoSpatial Technology Bill Zeman GeoSpatial Consulting Services

Th-07-230, ID: 117 CIRGIS participation in the National Map Paul Van Zuyle Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative

Th-08-230, ID: 183 Online Climate Variability Threshold Maps with Real-time CIMIS Weather Data Links for Growers and Researchers Kris Lynn-Patterson UC Kearney Ag Center

Th-09-230, ID: 185 Field Data Management and Utility in Mosquito Control GIS Jodi Holeman Consolidated Mosquito Abatement

Enterprise GIS Th-06-330, ID: 71 New Town, New Data and the GIS Solution Erin Mutch Mountain House Community Services District

Geospatial Data Th-07-330, ID: 83 LRS and County Boundaries Gerry Shoemaker Caltrans

Exhibit Hall Hours 9:30 - 6:30

Afternoon Break 3:00 - 3:30

Th-06-400, ID: 54 Migrating Parcel Data From CAD to Geodatabase - Was it Really Worth it? Gulla Gisladottir County of Santa Cruz, Assessor's Office

Th-06-430, ID: 156 Spatial Solutions as Small Business Opportunities Jerry Platt University of Redlands

GIS in Agriculture Th-08-330, ID: 206 Moderated Session: Multi-Level GIS Applications in Agriculture

Th-07-400, ID: 62 To Build a National Levee Database Michael J. Bishop Michael Baker Jr. Corporation

Th-07-430, ID: 111 UCB Fire Center: Providing science-based solutions to wildfire-related challenge Casey Cleve UC Berkeley

William Holland, GeoAnalystics, Inc. “Creating an Enterprise GIS Data Integration System in Support of Domestic Security and Performance Management” Tom Lanini, U.C. Davis “New Development in Precision Weed Management”

GIS in Agriculture Th-09-330, ID: 181 Trials and Triumphs in Converting Operations to ArcMAP Tom Hawkins CA Dept. Water Resources

Th-09-400, ID: 180 GIS and the Irrigated Lands Program in the Kings River Watershed Sonja Thiede Kings River Conservation District

Dan Munk, Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor, Fresno County “Methods and Results from Field Level Analysis Th-09-430, ID: 203 and Cotton Field Mapping” Habitat quality and landscape permeability for San Joaquin Kit Fox in the San Joaquin Blake Sanden, U.C. Davis and Riverside Valley of California “Correlation of Geo-referenced NDVI for Scott Phillips, CSU Stan. Endangered Species Pistachios and Cotton with Plant Data and Recovery Program Soil Salinity”

5:00 - 7:00 Reception in Exhibit Hall 5:30 - 6:30 Geography Bee

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Friday, April 6, 2007 Time

Jewett Ballroom

9:00 - 12:00 CGIA Awards

B

Sean Walsh, Senior Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger

Exhibit Hall Closed

GUEST SPEAKERS: The Coming Role of Virtual Globes in Geospatial Applications Michael Jones, Google Aric Weiker, Microsoft Patrick Hogan, NASA

Closing Brunch and Keynote

Special Events Poster Session Interactive Poster Session, Wednesday April 4, 3:00 - 4:00 PM. Posters will be on display throughout the entire conference at the sponsor exhibit hall. The interactive poster session will be held on Wednesday, 3 to 4 pm, where you'll have a chance to meet the authors and discuss their work. You will also have a chance to vote for your favorite poster. For CalGIS People's Choice Award, please evaluate each poster’s general quality, communication of a GIS concept or process, cohesive presentation, and cartographic quality. Then, please fill out the ballot you received at registration and drop it off in the ballot box by Thursday, April 5th, 3:30 pm.

“Four/Four” Social Wednesday, April 4th @ 7:00 – 10:00 PM Held at the Washington Inn - 495 Tenth Street (across from the conference location) The Four/Four Social is a sponsored event that will be sure to provide a fun and relaxing evening with hor d’oeuvres, cocktails and jazz piano! Prize giveaways as well as special guest favors…don’t miss it! This event is sponsored by: Michael Baker Jr., Inc. / TeleAtlas / AirPhotoUSA, A Digital Globe Company

Geography Bee 2nd Annual Geography Bee, Thursday April 5, 5:30 - 6:30 PM. The Geography Bee is a fun competition where teams from each URISA Chapter show off their geographical prowess. Questions about California's geography and history, as well as arcane and interesting trivia are offered during a one-hour live game show. Join the audience to cheer for your team. (Interested in joining a team? Space is limited, so contact your local URISA board early.) Come to the main hall on Thursday evening to see if Southern California URISA holds their title from 2006 or if another team can better recall the places, names, and events that make California the place we love to apply our GIS!

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2007 Sponsors GOLD

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Autodesk, Inc.

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14th Annual--Cal GIS Conference 2008 in Central California

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California Surveying & Drafting Supply CDM

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EarthData International

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Facet Technology Corporation

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GeoAnalytics, Inc.

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GeoDecisions

California C.A.D. Solutions, Inc.

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Geospatial Technologies in Agriculture

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Intergraph

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Latitude Geographics Group Ltd.

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Leica Geosystems

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L-3 Communications

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LizardTech

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Munsys, Inc.

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Mapcon Mapping, Inc.

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Psomas

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MoosePoint Technology, Inc.

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RBF Consulting

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Océ North America, Inc.

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Topcon California

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Orion Technology, Inc.

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Towill, Inc.

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PBS&J

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USGS

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Refractions Research

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RouteSmart Technologies, Inc

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ScanControl

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Sponsor Descriptions GOLD Autodesk, Inc. Autodesk, Inc. the world leader in 2D and 3D design software that integrate best of breed CAD and GIS tools for commercial and Government users. For more information visit: www.autodesk.com. Baker The Geospatial Information Technologies unit of Baker provides GIS consulting, needs assessments and technology implementation, photogrammetric mapping, digital orthophotography, data conversion, remote sensing, GPS and conventional field inventory and surveys. ESRI ESRI is the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) software industry. ESRI software helps you accomplish tasks faster, easier, and more efficiently. www.esri.com Intermap Technologies Intermap Technologies is in the business of creating and licensing highly accurate 3D digital models of the earth’s surface. Our objective is to proactively build a library of affordably-priced elevation data and imagery products of unprecedented accuracy; thereby, enabling a wide range of innovative commercial, government, and consumer applications. Metropolis New Media Metropolis is the hosting service provider of choice for GIS professionals looking to deploy web-based GIS solutions using ESRI ArcIMS, ArcSDE and ArcGIS Server. Tele Atlas Tele Atlas is a leading provider of digital map data and geocoding solutions for base map applications in government: Dynamp/2000: Comprehensive streets, addresses, census & postal data; Dynamap/Transportation: Enhances street networks and routing intelligence; Tele Atlas/One: A program for providing one map in the government enterprise. www.teleatlas.com

SILVER AirPhotoUSA AirPhotoUSA, A Digital Globe Company, is the clear leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information market. (www.digitalglobe.com) California C.A.D. Solutions, Inc. Specializing in GIS implementations that are said to be impossible. Carter & Burgess, Inc. As a full service architecture, engineering, and management consulting firm, Carter & Burgess works with clients across the nation to implement practical solutions to their information systems needs. CH2M Hill CH2M HILL offers IT management consulting, spatial solution development, technical education and IT managed services across the entire client enterprise.

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HJW GeoSpatial, Inc. HJW GeoSpatial provides innovative solutions with uncompromised quality. Services include: Photogrammetry, LiDAR Terrain Modeling, Orthophotography, Quality Oversight, Spatial data fusion. Ideate, Inc. Ideate Inc. provides geospatial solutions for integrating CAD and GIS to efficiently manage Engineering, Public Works, Utilities, and facilities data Intergraph Intergraph enables agencies to easily access the data necessary to make better, faster decisions to responsibly manage public infrastructure. Our geospatial management solutions include land information, public works, and transportation. L.A. CAD L.A. CAD is a full-service consulting, training and support center, focused on Autodesk solutions. www.lacad.com L-3 Communications L-3 Communications Enterprise IT Solutions is an industry leader in geospatial services, with experience providing innovative solutions for the effective integration of mission data with geospatial information. Munsys, Inc. Munsys provides turnkey applications and asset mapping solutions for utilities and government, bridging the gap between Engineering and GIS. Psomas Providing full lifecycle GIS services supporting government and utility business needs with effective software, data, and consulting solutions. RBF Consulting RBF Consulting provides GIS services to private and public sector clients throughout the western U.S. For additional information, visit www.RBF.com. Topcon California Topcon California is the leading California supplier of precision positioning products to a number of markets including GIS, Construction and Survey. Towill, Inc. Towill, Inc. is a leading provider of geomatics services and technologies, including land surveying, aerial photography, LiDAR, photogrammetric mapping, and GIS. USGS The USGS serves the nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss from natural hazards; manage natural resources; and enhance our lives.

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Sponsor Descriptions BRONZE American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Northern California Region ASPRS: the Imaging and Geospatial Information Society Azteca Systems, Inc. GIS-Centric Asset Maintenance Management Solution Software. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Caltrans works to improve mobility of all types across California. California Governor's Office of Emergency Services The Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) coordinates state agencies' response to major disasters. OES often calls on its GIS Unit to assist during these events with their mapping needs. California Surveying & Drafting Supply California's largest Authorized Distributor for Trimble Land Surveying and Mapping/GIS systems. We offer sales, service, rentals, training and a statewide VRS network. CDM CDM is a consulting, engineering, information management and operations firm delivering exceptional service to public and private clients worldwide since 1947. EarthData International EarthData offers high-quality geospatial data for mapping programs worldwide. eSpatial, Inc. eSpatial, a Global Enterprise Geospatial Software and Technology Company. Facet Technology Corporation Facet Technology Corporation---leading provider of street-level imagery and GIS technology solutions. GeoAnalytics, Inc. GeoAnalytics specializes in the design and implementation of Spatial Intelligence Systems. GeoDecisions GeoDecisions is an information technology company specializing in GIS. Geospatial Imaging & Informatics Facility (GIIF) at UC Berkeley Serving natural resource geoinformatics for California academia, government, and the public. Geospatial Technologies in Agriculture Current GIS Techniques in California’s Agricultural Industry and Agricultural Research.

Leica Geosystems Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging delivers accurate, efficient geospatial imaging software. LizardTech Since 1992, LizardTech has delivered state-of-the-art technology for managing and distributing massive, high-resolution digital content. Mapcon Mapping, Inc. Supplying quality geospatial information for intelligent decision making since 1987. MoosePoint Technology, Inc. GeoSmart.net - Fast, Easy, Powerful Development Environment for Enterprise Web GIS. Océ North America, Inc. Océ TCS500 – the fastest, large format color print-copy-scan system available. Orion Technology, Inc. Orion Technology Inc. is everything Web-GIS for your organization. PBS&J National multi-discipline engineering firm providing geospatial products and services. Pictometry International Corporation Pictometry – Provider of Patented Oblique imagery, integrates with multiple GIS Applications. Prison Industry Authority GIS, Document Imaging, And Technology services for government agencies. Refractions Research Refractions Research is a geospatial consulting and development corporation based in Victoria, British Columbia. RouteSmart Technologies, Inc. Route optimization software for public works operating environments. Sanborn Sanborn offers end-to-end spatial solutions to GIS mapping customers. ScanControl Universal multi-language mobile field data collection and enterprise GIS solutions. Won TechVision Award-winning solutions: street-level visual intelligence and GIS decision support system.

Google Google Earth puts the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Harte-Hanks Global Address International address quality solutions with geocode, mapping, proximity and routing functionalities. Latitude Geographics Group Ltd. Geocortex: Helping people succeed with web-based geography.

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CalGIS 2007 Speaker List Scheduled

Primary Author

Title

Affiliation

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Tim Hayes

Implementing a GIS for a Recycled Water Utility

W-03-330

7

Bill Clement

The Big Payback: Utility TV results on Intranet web GIS

Th-06-230 Th-04-1130 Th-07-900 Th-02-200

8 9 10 11

Bill Zeman Jason Hill Sandeep Menon William Holland

W-Poster-300

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Peng Wu

Th-04-430

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Colin Hobson

W-03-930 Th-05-1100 W-07-430 W-05-230 Th-02-230

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Colin Hobson James M. Johnston Jonathan Posner MELISA I. CARIC Oliver Mainka

W-06-230 Th-04-230 W-01-330 Th-01-1100 W-02-1000 W-06-330 W-06-400

22 24 25 28 30 31 32

Chad Flynn John Ellison Bruce Joffe Karen Underhill, Ph.D., GISP Malcolm Adkins Donald G. Price Karin Tuxen

W-03-430 Th-05-430

34 35

Bill Tucker Deborah Martin

The Value of New GeoSpatial Technology The Value of GIS/CAD Integration Managing Infrastructure Data in Both a CAD & GIS Environment The Intersection of Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems Unlocking Intrazonal Travel Activities with GIS in Vehicular Emissions Modeling A comparison of using map sheets vs databases for storing engineering maps Bridging the GAP between CAD and GIS Travel Time: An Empirical Method for Determining Average Network Speeds GIS for Wine Country Restoration and Water Reuse MOBILE GIS- A RAILWAY CORRIDOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS Putting the Where next to the What and the Why Geospatial Support for SAP Busi Using GIS to more accurately and efficiently address the CEQA Guidelines Connecting the Silos: Adventures in Sharing Geospatial Information Estimating GIS Return On Investment: the Empirical Way Planning a Successful and Practical Enterprise GIS Revealing the AT&T CA & NV (GIS West) Spatial Data Infrastructure Monitoring Riparian Areas with Remote Sensing Techniques Integrating GIS and remote sensing to map San Francisco Estuary salt marshes Accessing Information Stored In Maximo Using ArcReader Environmental Data Presented via ArcIMS

City of San Jose Environmental Services Department Central Contra Costa Sanitary District GeoSpatial Consulting Services Ideate Inc. Ideate Inc.. GeoAnalytics Inc.

W-02-230 W-05-1130 Th-06-1100 Th-07-1100 W-02-1130 W-Poster-300

37 38 39 40 42 43

Malcolm Adkins Earl G. Bossard Justin M. Lokitz Warren Roberts M. Kim Cordell Kevin Meconis

W-07-400 Th-05-400 W-Poster-300

44 45 47

Catherine Huybrechts Kassim Visram Dr. Noor S. Tietze

Th-07-1130 W-05-400 W-Poster-300 W-Poster-300

48 49 50 51

Binita Sinha David Ruiz Michael Webster Karen Pfister

W-02-930 Th-03-130 Th-06-400

52 53 54

Blair Adams John Radke Gulla Gisladottir

Th-01-330 Th-03-430 W-Poster-300 W-Poster-300 W-Poster-300

55 56 57 58 60

Wei Luo Gordon Ye Riti Shimkhada Chris Hooper Peter Capone-Newton MD

W-Poster-300 Th-07-400 Th-03-1130 Th-02-430 Th-02-1130 Th-05-330

61 62 63 64 65 66

Catherine Huybrechts Michael J. Bishop Chris Hallford Shawn Slade George White Eric Sandoval

Th-02-1100

67

Eric Sandoval

Th-03-200

69

Art Botterell

W-Poster-300

70

Patrick J. Parsons

Th-06-330

71

Erin Mutch

W-Poster-300 W-04-430 W-04-400 W-01-230 W-Poster-300 W-Poster-300 W-Poster-300 W-03-230 W-01-1130 W-Poster-300 Th-04-400 Th-07-330 W-04-1100

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Colleen Reid Brian B. Quinn Roger Ewers Ian White Brandon Oberbauer Michael Allen Eszter Tompos Eszter Tompos Nathan Jennings Elizabeth Proctor Samuel Smith Gerald Schumacher Dennis Wuthrich

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Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis Open Spatial Inc. Open Spatial Inc. Michael Baker Jr. Inc. CDM PBS&J SAP Labs LLC Christopher A. Joseph & Associates California Resources Agency GIS Consultants RBF Consulting Michael Baker Jr Pacific Gas and Electric Company University of California, Berkeley

Santa Clara Valley Water District Alameda County Environmental Health Department A Prioritized California Spatial Data Infrastructure Michael Baker Jr. Finding and Envisioning Viable Urban Development Neighborhoods San Jose State University From Shapefile to Enterprise Multi-user Mobile Editing Acquis, Inc. Online GIS at the Community College Rio Hondo College Accurate Vineyard Mapping for Precision Agriculture Ray Carlson & Associates, Inc. Utilizing GIS and Traffic Collision Data to Characterize Safe Riverside County Department of Routes to School Public Health Mapping Tire Piles with Satellites Saves California Agency Time and Money. Endpoint Environmental, LLC Using web-based GIS in environmental compliance at PG&E Pacific Gas & Electric Company West Nile Virus Surveillance for Santa Clara County in 2006 Santa Clara County Vector Control District Managing a GIS-GPS Certificate Program Diablo Valley College Imagery and GIS in the legal environment HJW Geospatial Centerline Map of San Francisco San Francisco State University Identifying San Joaquin County Census Tracts With Late Prenatal Care Using GIS San Joaquin County Public Health Services Creative Commons and Geographic Information Systems City County of San Francisco The Next Big One: Mitigating Catastrophe with GIS University of California, Berkeley MIGRATING PARCEL DATA FROM CAD TO GEODATABASE County of Santa Cruz, Assessor's WAS IT REALLY WORTH IT? Office Modeling our 3D World with Google Earth and Google SketchUp Google Earthquake Risk Evaluation for Gas Pipelines: Leveraging GIS Integration Pacific Gas & Electric Company Neighborhood-level built and social environments and physical inactivity University of California, Los Angeles Risk of Childhood Leukemia and Brain Tumors and Enertech Consultants Coccidioidomycosis in LA County: Spatial relationships with construction Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Mapping Nonnative Aquatic Plants with an Image-processing Algorithm Endpoint Environmental To Build a National Levee Database Michael Baker Jr. Corporation Moraga-Orinda Fire District - Wildland Risk Assessment Moraga Orinda Fire District Stereo Feature Mapping using NAIP ADS40 1-meter Imagery Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging ADA Transition Planning Using GIS for Decision Support Policy Innovation Works Steelhead Spawning Sites and Gravel Replenishment: Monterey Peninsula Water Patterns Within the Carmel Management District Herding Cats and the Use of Catnip When Building Monterey Peninsula Water Inter-Agency Collaborations Management District GIS-Based Public Warning Contra Costa County (CA) Sheriff's Community Warning System Feather River ArcIMS Department of Water Resources, State of California New Town, New Data and the GIS Solution Mountain House Community Services District Problems Encountered With Two Geocoding Methods UC Berkeley Explorations in Immersive 1:1 Scale 3-d mapping City of Berkeley Google Earth Enterprise Implementation at Caltrans California Department of Transportation "GI What?" Urban Mapping, Inc Creating Exhibit G Drawings that Meet FERC Standards PG&E The Evolving Use and Creation of PG&E's Electrical System Map PG&E Monitoring Sedimentation in PG&E Reservoirs – Bathymetric Study PG&E Call Before You Dig! – The Role of GIS in Locating Facilities in the Field PG&E Digital Elevation Models - Creating and Use in the Classroom American River College Mapping Streetlights with ArcGIS PG&E Conflation-Based Data Integrations Refractions Research Inc. LRS and County Boundaries Caltrans Easy, Fast, and Convenient: Adopting Web Application Farallon Geographics Design Metrics to Develop Innovative Geospatial Applications

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CalGIS 2007 Speaker List Scheduled

Abstract ID

Primary Author

Title

Affiliation

The Role of Spatially Enabled Databases in Enterprise GIS Squeezing Value From Your Enterprise Geodatabase Developing Web Applications with Public and Freely Available APIs Work Order and Service Request Monitoring System at the City of Houston Annual Changes in Community Risk Factors and Characteristics Waterway Maintenance and Geospatial Information Mobile (and other) Integration of GIS Data through the use of XML and Services 3D Viewing of GIS layers and DEMs to Improve Mapping Extending Your GIS with Open Source Incorporating LiDAR Data into City of San José Workflows Leveraging your Geodatabase as a Business System Custom Tools Used for Workflow Management and QA Processes in a Digital Landbase Web based mapping GIS Professional Certification and GISCI Applied GIS: Mapping Environmental Health Data

Farallon Geographics Farallon Geographics Farallon Geographics eSpatial

Th-06-1130 Th-01-130 W-04-1130 Th-04-330

85 86 87 88

Jeff Saunders Adam Lodge Alexei Peters Jon Polay

W-07-200 Th-05-200 Th-04-200

89 90 91

Don Taylor Thomas Moorhouse Ian Fitzgerald, GISP

W-Poster-300 W-04-1000 W-06-1130 Th-06-200 W-02-400

92 94 95 96 97

Jim Ellis Charlie Crocker Vicky A Gallardo Garrett Dunwoody Mark Morrison

W-04-930 W-01-930 W-Poster-300

98 99 100

Eric Waldman RuthAnne Harbison Galatea King

W-05-200 Th-01-400 W-04-130

101 102 103

David Jacobus Linda Akers Patrick Crevelt

Th-01-830

104

Bruce Joffe

Th-01-930

105

Dennis Klein

W-Poster-300

106

Melanie Casey

W-04-230 W-Poster-300 W-01-130 W-07-230

107 108 109 110

Robert Yoha Jie He John Huie Svetlana Smorodinsky

Th-07-430

111

Casey Cleve

W-06-1100

112

Devin Kelley

Th-04-130 W-06-430 Th-07-230

113 116 117

Justin M. Lokitz Seth Stark Paul Van Zuyle

Planning With GPS Local Update of Census Addresses Program Promotional Workshop Lessons Learned with Rapid Deployment of Web Enabling Geodata/Applications at City of San Mateo Parcel Basemap Geodata: Resolving the Public Records Controversy - Panel Discuss DIGITAL PARCEL MAP DATA SHARING STANDARDS ISSUES AND REMDIES Contemporary Environmental Conservation in San Diego County, California GIS in DoC - It's More Than Just Paper Maps San Mateo County Fire Jurisdiction Map GIS in the organization Promoting the value of GIS: California Department of Health Services experience UCB Fire Center: Providing science-based solutions to wildfire-related challenge An Overview of the Benefits and Uniqueness of LiDAR Terrain Data for Regional Mapping Projects Real-time, Real-world Location-enabled Service Oriented Architectures Spatial Analysis of Selenium in the Salton Sea CIRGIS participation in the National Map

W-01-400

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Fred Vogler

Qui est Roi de la Monarchie?

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Christopher Hitchcock

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Won Yi Doug Mende

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Rebecca L. Horne

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Stephen Hoffman Mike Sabbatino

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Melvin S. Bernstein Yara Jasso Ray Lenaburg

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Steve Raney Jeff Akers

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Craig Gooch Tony Pietropola Rick Hendrickson

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Roger Andre António Rochette

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Ana Lopes

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Douglas Henstridge

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Michael O'Neill

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Han Chu David S. Johnson Rebecca Degagne

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David Patterson William Harmon Jean-Paul Lavoie Dave Van Mouwerik

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Prashant Jawalikar

Use of GIS in Mapping Levee Foundation Materials Sacramento Delta Region Using Street-level Imagery at the City of Livermore @City Inc. Infill Development Planning using GIS Modeling with Parcel Psomas Information Gaps Mapping a Measure of HIV Acquisition Risk in San Diego County California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS Finding Your Spatial Return on Investment in Local Government Intergraph Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Substructure Carter & Burgess Utility Database at LAX Using Google Maps to Present Enviornmental Health Data Alameda County Variations in Pipeline Diameter by County CDM Synergy Between DFIRM Updates and HAZUS®MH FEMA Assessment for Orange County, CA Bay Area Business Park Catalog Cities21.org Integrating Spatial Technology Across a State Enterprise CH2M HILL Enterprise Management Solutions GIS Data Quality Management Shortcomings, Failings of the GIS Community Psomas GIS Development Through Collaborative Government Partnerships Geodecisions Using GIS and a Database Application to improve RBF Consulting Stormwater Management in SD Bay Using KML Regions to Display Large Data Sets in Google Earth Google Local Educative Letters and reorganization of educative net Escola Superior de Educação da from the use of SIG Guarda, Portugal The use of GIS in territorial valorisation Escola Superior de Educação da Guarda, Portugal GIS-Based Utility Master Planning at San Diego State University: Carter & Burgess, Inc. A Case Study Supporting California Healthcare: Using GIS in the Enterprise CA Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Mobile GIS and Tablet PC - Benefits and Lessons Psomas Improving the Accuracy and Completeness of Utility Data at MCAS Miramar Intergraph Examining the Distribution of Monodominant Humboldt State University (Dicymbe corymbosa)Tropical Forests in Guyana with Satellite Imagery Avalanche Hazards on MT Shasta US Forest Service GIS for the Lower Division Geography Lab Ohlone College Delivering Documents – GIS for Low Cost Document Management Geodesy Using GIS to Identify Infill Housing Opportunities in the IGIS Technologies, Inc City of Los Angeles Migrating basemaps to TeleAtlas: Challenges and data bd Systems, Inc. rectification strategies

California Department of Education Clean Lakes, Inc. Truckee Donner Public Utility District Ellis GeoSpatial Autodesk City of San José San Mateo County Assessor Michael Baker, Jr., Inc. Microsoft City of Merced California Environmental Health Tracking Program RBF Consulting US Census Bureau City of San Mateo GIS Consultants Boundary Solutions County of San Diego, Dept of Planning and Land Use California Department of Conservation San Mateo County Contra Costa County California Department of Health Services UC Berkeley HJW GeoSpatial, Inc Acquis, Inc. CH2M Hill Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative Marin County Community Development Agency William Lettis & Associates, Inc.

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Mui Lay Jacob Yadegar Gary Lasky Megan Sayles James K. Crossfield

GIS analysis of potential future renewable energy generation Automatic Image Processing and Fusion for GIS Applications Community Impact Assessment using a GIS Quickly Conveying Useful Information To Your Audience Silver Strike

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Satinder Bhalla

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Gavin O'Leary

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Gloria Humble Jerry Platt Craig Parada David Hill

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Marcus Glass Leah Vaughn

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Andrew Lewis

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Kevin Miller

GeoSync: Low Cost Tool to Extract, Geocode and Load Spatial Data The Value Of GIS In A Mid-sized Engineering Firm: Bridging The Gap Spatial Reconciliation: How I put myself out of a job Spatial Solutions as Small Business Opportunities Wiki GIS: Transition to a Distributed System Mapping Planning Points of Dispersion and Populations in Santa Clara County Wildfire Risk Information Product Pediatric Health in Santa Clara County: Challenges and Opportunities Integrating High Resolution Imagery with ArcGIS for Urban Water Conservation California Tsunami Hazards: Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Davis UtopiaCompression Corporation Caltrans URS Corporation Dept. of Civil and Geomaics Engineering and Construction, CSU, Fresno bd Systems,Inc

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Charlie Cullen Amber Beckler Balaji Sethuramasamyraja

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Greg Stemler

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Brian J. Cullis

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Kris Lynn-Patterson Susan Ustin

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Tim Stone Lee F. Johnson

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Edd Russell Jerry Schmierer

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G. Montez

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Sonja Thiede

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Thomas Hawkins Kris Lynn-Patterson

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Robin Wood Jodi Holeman

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Maggi Kelly

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Jim Ellis Maegan Leslie Mike Bryne

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Larry Orman Konstantin Krivoruchko Autodesk ESRI Baker Intermap TeleAtlas Jack Paris

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Malcolm Adkins Tanya Diamond

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Catrina Christian Michael Webster Byron Clark

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Scott Phillips

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Jay Hutton Reg Parks

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GIS & Computer Aided Dispatch - Help Where It's Needed GIS and Nevada County Government Geospatial Wine Grape Quality Modeling and Differential Harvest for Precision Ag GIS-SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTAL DUE DILIGENCE OF OVER 900,000 ACRES OF TIMBERLANDS Spatial Information Resource Management: Reframing GIS Standards & Policies Using Climate Maps in Olive Fly Management Decisions Rapid non-destructive detection of vine water status using a spectral water absorption feature in the near-infrared. Commercial Use of Images by the End Users in Agriculture Mapping Vineyard Water Balance NASA Ames Research Center Soil Survey Information from USDA on the Internet "Soils to Go" for Cooperative Extension: Providing Soils Maps on DVD and the Internet Use of GIS Technology to Provide Information Retrieval and Analysis Capabilities for a UC Research and Extension Center GIS and the Irrigated Lands Program in the Kings River Watershed Trials and Triumphs in Converting Operations to ARCMAP Online Climate Variability Threshold Maps with Real-Time CIMIS Weather Data for Growers and Researchers Building a GIS Portal Field Data Management and Utility in Mosquito Control GIS Applications “Implementation of Geospatial Technologies in U.C. Cooperative Extension: Challenges, Successes” Acquiring, Processing, and Using LiDAR Data GIS and Land Trusts Web GIS for Health and Environmental Justice Overview of GIS and Environmental Protection The Value of Spatial Statistics in Agriculture Geodatabase: New Flavors, New Capabilities Baker Maps California: 163,707 square miles in two-hours The Value of Remote Sensing for Assessing Vegetation TeleAtlas: GIS Data Summit Short Course; The Value of Remote Sensing for Assessing Vegetation Planning for the Next Generation GIS in Government Using GIS to Identify Potential Cooridors Utilized by North American Badgers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Counties Contra Costa Emergency Services within Quake Zones An Urban Oasis in the Woods: A GIS Analysis Application of SEBAL® for Improved Water Management in Agricultural, Natural, and Urban Environments Habitat quality and landscape permeability for San Joaquin kit fox in the San Joaquin Valley of California Species Recovery Program NDVI Use In Viticulture The Benefits of Enlisting Interdisciplinary Teams in the Development of High Order GIS Projects Panel Discussion: GIS applications in Agriculture

Provost & Pritchard Engineering, Inc The City of Palo Alto University of Redlands Santa Clara County Public Health Department Sanborn Mapping Company Santa Clara County Department of Public Health Sanborn Mapping Company California Office of Emergency Services The City of Palo Alto County of Nevada California State University, Fresno Geomatrix Consultants CH2MHill

University of California, Davis Britz Fertilizers Inc. Calif. State Univ., Monterey Bay; USDA-NRCS University of California University of California Kings River Conservation District Department of Water Resources U.C. Kearney Ag Center ScanControl, Inc. Consolidated Mosquito Abatement UC Berkeley

Green Info Network Office of Statewide Planning and Health Green Info Network ESRI

San Jose State University

Diablo Valley College San Francisco State University SEBAL North America, Inc. CSU Stanislaus, Endnagered

The Vineyard Technology and Development Group Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor, Colusa County

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Program Abstracts ID: 4 Implementing a GIS for a Recycled Water Utility

Tim Hayes City of San Jose Environmental Services Department The South Bay Water Recycling Program (SBWR), overseen by the City of San José, California, Environmental Services Department, is the largest recycled water utility in the Silicon Valley. SBWR has implemented a multi-faceted GIS to address many shortcomings in the system. The use of GIS has led to increased productivity, faster identification and location of field assets, decreased staff frustration in trying to locate critical asset information, and improvement of the system maintenance workflow. ID: 7 The Big Payback: Utility TV results on Intranet web GIS

Bill Clement Central Contra Costa Sanitary District The project was an integration of web based GIS mapping with digital sewer closed circuit television inspection results. Pipe segments and associated data can be graphically selected from the GIS and inspection results reviewed from a personal computer workstation, resulting in significant cost savings. ID: 8 The Value of New GeoSpatial Technology

Bill Zeman GeoSpatial Consulting Services The value of some of the new airborne technology is that it affords GIS decision makers the ability to access imagery, vector and terrain data to aid in their planning and response to many different events. What type of digital cameras are available and what are their advantages and disadvantages? What is LiDAR? What is an IMU? How are DEMs produced from LiDAR, photogrammetry or Sonar? What’s the difference between a DEM, DTM and DSM? ID: 9 The Value of GIS/CAD Integration

Jason Hill Ideate Inc. Typically state and local government agencies, environmental engineering firms, as well as private utility companies consist of an engineering department and a GIS department both working with the same data but using different tools and different formats creating redundancy and inhibited workflow. Maximize control over your organizations engineering and GIS data by making it accessible to both departments for data access, analysis and distribution increasing the value of both departments and improving overall results. ID: 10 Managing Infrastructure Data in Both a CAD & GIS Environment

Sandeep Menon Ideate Inc. Many organizations have invested in CAD, for it’s drafting and engineering design capabilities and GIS, for its spatial analysis tools. For these organizations there is a definitive need to efficiently and accurately move data from CAD to GIS and vice-versa. As a result, maximizing the return on investment in both technologies is a real challenge. This session focuses on the successful best practices of a government agency in Northern California. ID: 11 The Intersection of Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems

William Holland GeoAnalytics Inc There are two parallel architectures finding their way into overall IT architectures in public and private organizations: GIS and data warehousing/business intelligence (DW/BI). Both have similar missions: enterprise support for data integration and information delivery. Both have similar approaches: pull data from disparate systems, integrate and provide analytics and information in ways that has not been achieved before. DW/BI has focused mostly on the aspatial data, and

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GIS on the spatial data. This presentation will provide an overview of key concepts, the intersection of these architectures, the pitfalls, possibilities, and opportunities. ID: 12 Unlocking Intrazonal Travel Activities with GIS in Vehicular Emissions Modeling

Peng Wu Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis This study proposes a GIS-based method that uses existing data sources, such as detailed population distribution by census tracts and detailed road networks, to disaggregated intrazonal travel activities. By this means, a better representation of the spatial distribution of travel activities within a TAZ is obtained. Therefore, this results in a more realistic allocation of transportation-related emissions at the grid cell level. ID: 13 A comparison of using map sheets vs databases for storing engineering maps

Colin Hobson Open Spatial Inc. A comparison of using map sheets vs databases for storing engineering maps.The industry trend for managing both GIS and engineering (CAD) data is increasingly to use a single data store (database) as opposed to multiple data files and map sheets (drawings). This presentation, based on real world examples, examines how this change impacts organizations and at what cost or savings?

ID: 19 Mobile GIS- A Railway Corridor Environmental Analysis

Melisa Caric PBS&J Learn how we overcame the challenges of sending multiple field crews into the field: remote location,time constrainsts,personell tracking, synchronization, and automated QAQC. This transportation corridor had three types of data collection built into one tool. In two months, 319 miles of environmental data was collected. See how this project save time and money using 100% electronic data collection. ID: 21 Putting the Where next to the What and the Why - Geospatial Support for SAP Business

Oliver Mainka SAP Labs LLC The use of geospatial systems such as GIS has long been in the hands of skilled GIS specialists, and with regards to business people in limited markets such as Enterprise Asset Management and site selection. Does the Where of a company’s master data, business transactions, and analytical applications matter just as well as What the company has done (easily viewable in a tabular report), and Why things happened (doing analytical drill-downs into the business data)? This presentation will show the work of SAP’s project Sagres, which tries to determine and prototype the best SAP/GIS integration scenarios, and will answer this question from various angles based on studies of the needs of business people.

ID: 14 Bridging the GAP between CAD and GIS

Colin Hobson Open Spatial Inc. Today most CAD systems have GIS functionality and most GIS systems can work with CAD data yet most organizations continue to have both CAD and GIS systems being used in different groups with limited and ineffective data sharing between them. This presentation examines how to bridge the gap between CAD and GIS by supporting the use of both systems and providing seamless data sharing between them as appropriate. ID: 16 Travel Time: An Empirical Method for Determining Average Network Speeds

James M. Johnston Michael Baker Jr. Inc. The increasing popularity and implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems to manage the nation’s freeways and highways is providing new sources of real traffic information every day. This paper will discuss the use of sensor based highway speed measurements collected from loop detectors, thirdparty radar devices and field study methodologies to develop real and derived travel time impedance values and apply them to a statewide GIS transportation network. ID: 17 GIS for Wine Country Restoration and Water Reuse

Jonathan Posner CDM The North San Pablo Bay Restoration and Reuse project aims to alleviate sensitive ecological and water resource challenges throughout the study area composed of portions of Marin, Sonoma, and Napa counties. The five stakeholder agencies, acting under a memorandum of understanding, are preparing a feasibility study to assess water recycling opportunities for environmental restoration, agricultural and urban irrigation in the region under the Bureau of Reclamation’s Title 16 Program. The feasibility study was separated into three phases. GIS has been integral in accomplishing the requirements of Phases I and II, which included the engineering support necessary to develop the three project alternatives.

ID: 22 Using GIS to more accurately and efficiently address the CEQA Guidelines

Chad Flynn Christopher A. Joseph & Associates As GISs become more comprehensive, their accessibility and applicability to the planning and consulting industry continues to advance. Each year, an increasing amount of information is available as GIS data, allowing for integrated analysis by geographic location of a variety of topics. At its outset, GIS had limited relevance to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) documents other than providing generic project location maps. However, through increased information sharing and technological advances, GIS data is readily available from an abundance of sources. From the initial stages of project design to the more detailed technical analysis stages, GIS is proving to be an invaluable environmental planning tool. This paper discusses relevant environmental impact data layers, sources of this data and how to address the CEQA Statutes and Guidelines accurately and efficiently through GIS. ID: 24 Connecting the Silos: Adventures in Sharing Geospatial Information

John Ellison California Resources Agency CERES (www.ceres.ca.gov) works on information architecture to make known, integrate and share environmental data. This includes a standards based, web accessible metadata clearinghouse (http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/), a repository of “framework” geospatial data (http://gis.ca.gov/) and spatially enabled data discovery and navigation tools. Enhancements continue with new technologies and design strategies (e.g., XML, AJAX, services oriented architecture). A new strategy of using web map services rather than centrally hosted repositories of geospatial data has emerged. ArcGIS Server 9.2 is being used to build a map client and a registry capable of using web map services from across the Internet. Work is underway on a web portal environment that includes an automated content management system with facilitated metadata capture and a library function for digital documents. Future directions include a web application where communal editing of spatial objects can occur in a secure and controlled manner to foster collaboration on geospatial data.

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Program Abstracts ID: 25 Estimating GIS Return On Investment: the Empirical Way

Bruce Joffe GIS Consultants Benefit/Cost analyses of GIS implementation projects have been criticized for being "soft and squishy", or "too formulaic", or "blue-sky fantasies." But significant experience now provides concrete, empirical evidence upon which to detail reality-based projections for GIS implementation proposals. This innovative benefit calculation method is explained and documented in the context of a dynamic-allocation cost-projection model, resulting in substantiation for investment payback (ROI) and ongoing benefit value. ID: 28 Planning a Successful and Practical Enterprise GIS

Karen Underhill, Ph.D., GISP RBF Consulting More and more public agencies and private companies are finding the value in using GIS. The more individual departments use GIS the greater the potential for numerous, out of date, and redundant datasets. Many have found the solution in an Enterprise GIS system. The potential value of an enterprise GIS includes: Reduction of data redundancy between departments, Immediate access to the most current and accurate digital information, Improve accuracy of available information, Increased functionality, and more efficient management of limited resources. This presentation describes practical steps in the development of an Enterprise GIS from inception to a fully functional system. ID: 30 Revealing the AT&T CA & NV (GIS West) Spatial Data Infrastructure

Malcolm Adkins Michael Baker Jr AT&T California & Nevada (GIS West) have built a comprehensive two-state SDI to support their internal community and licensed third parties. The AT&T SDI contains most of the core NSDI framework data themes. ID: 31 Monitoring Riparian Areas with Remote Sensing Techniques

Donald G. Price Pacific Gas and Electric Company We used orthorectified high-resolution Quickbird imagery for a riparian vegetation monitoring study associated with our Crane Valley hydroelectric project in Madera County, California. The study included the evaluation of riparian vegetation communities, stream morphology, and proper functioning ecosystem variables. We used a time series of repeat image data sets for consistent assessments over test and control areas that would be difficult to accomplish with aerial photographic mapping methods. Based on image analysis and vegetation transect data, a comparison between riparian areas unaffected and affected by hydroelectric operations was made using a Proper Functioning Condition method. ID: 32 Integrating GIS and remote sensing to map San Francisco Estuary salt marshes

Karin Tuxen University of California, Berkeley San Francisco Estuary salt marshes have complex and heterogeneous vegetation patterns at multiple scales. Many efforts to restore salt marshes in the bay and delta regions seek to restore wetlands back to their natural function, but the question remains how to map vegetation pattern in a multi-scale manner. In this study, we xmap three salt marshes in the San Francisco Estuary (two restored and one natural), with respect to three wetland functions at three different scales: salt marsh harvest mouse habitat, California clapperrail habitat, and productivity/carbon sequestration. GIS and object-based remote sensing are applied to very high-resolution aerial photography (20 cm), for segmentation into patches at multiple scales, and then

classification in a hierarchical structure. We will share results of our multi-scale maps, as well as compare results of accuracy assessments and land cover analysis to pixel-based remote sensing methods. ID: 34 Accessing Information Stored In Maximo Using ArcReader

Bill Tucker Santa Clara Valley Water District This presentation will explore how the Santa Clara Valley Water District (District) uses ArcReader to allow staff to access information about pipeline appurtenances through a map interface. The District historically has maintained non-spatial pipeline data in an Oracle-based Maximo database and spatial pipeline data in ESRI's shapefile format. A recent project to update appurtenance information and collect coordinates using a Global Positioning System (GPS) has prompted the District to change the way information about pipelines is stored. As a result of this project, X and Y coordinate fields have been added to the Maximo database. Appurtenance data in the Maximo database is now accessed with GIS through a materialized view on the ArcSDE server. ID: 35 Environmental Data Presented via ArcIMS

Deborah Martin Alameda County Environmental Health Department Many Environmental Health departments in California license the same database product to track all activities (Envision). We contracted with Decade Software Co. to spatially enable the database using Map Objects. All tables with a geographic location now have lat/long and mapping within the database. We have taken the data from Envision and are using it in ArcIMS queries. We have two websites: one for the general public (URL below) and one for the staff that requires authentication. ID: 37 A Prioritized California Spatial Data Infrastructure

Malcolm Adkins Michael Baker Jr. The California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) partnered with the US Geological Survey, the California Resources Agency and the California GIS Council to develop a Draft Geospatial Framework Data Plan for California. This project served to introduce the California geospatial community to framework-relevant national and California initiatives, to filter the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) data themes, and identify new critical data themes. The resulting report will also be the basis of a continued outreach to the California geospatial community to report findings, capture more detailed data theme information, and set the stage for operational collaboration and cost sharing. ID: 38 Finding and Envisioning Viable Urban Development Neighborhoods

Earl G. Bossard San Jose State University Understanding and identifying neighborhoods with long term sustainable urban development prospects is an important challenge which can be met by effectively organizing and modeling digital geo-demographic and other data using GIS and database management tools such as spreadsheets and the Web. This paper aims to enable analysts to identify neighborhoods meeting, to various degrees, (easily pass, just pass, just fail, or clearly fail) threshold levels of desired criteria for neighborhoods being sought. Maps of pass-fail success and indices of weighted counts and z-score criteria varying with factor intensities are used to fine-tune fuzzy criteria and indices, leading to selection of neighborhoods with good prospects to satisfy searches. ID: 39 From Shapefile to Enterprise Multi-user Mobile Editing

Justin M. Lokitz Acquis, Inc. The convergence of high speed wireless networks,

capable computers running the windows mobile operating system disguised as mobile devices, and enterprise databases that are highly functional repositories of spatial data and attributes have enabled a new breed of mobile software for spatial data and attribute editing that is simple to use and yet capable of meeting the specialized demands of GIS users. This talk will discuss the ease at which users can take shapefiles, load them into a world class spatial database, and edit spatial data and attributes. The talk will explain how to do real-time editing while connected to the database and how to extract data from the database for disconnected editing. ID: 40 Online GIS at the Community College

Warren Roberts Rio Hondo College One mission of the Community College is to provide the working professional in the community with convenient & affordable professional development. GIS courses are venturing online offering more localized, practical lesson plans. The presentation will share experiences teaching GIS online and fact finding from professionals and other educators in attendance. ID: 42 Accurate Vineyard Mapping for Precision Agriculture

M. Kim Cordell Ray Carlson & Associates, Inc. Precision agriculture offers vineyard managers an edge, particularly in premium wine-growing areas. Viticulturists who understand and manage the variations within a single block can produce the quality grapes that winemakers want. Managers need to know the number of vines in each row, and even the location of particular vines. GIS is the perfect tool to efficiently and accurately map a block down to the vine level. This presentation describes a simple grid mapping technique that is crucial for the vineyard manager interested in precision agriculture. The presentation will also show how this information is the foundation for financial and asset management tools used to track cost and revenue. ID: 43 Utilizing GIS and Traffic Collision Data to Characterize Safe Routes to School

Kevin Meconis Riverside County Department of Public Health The CalTrans Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program provides funding to improve conditions for children to safely walk and bicycle to school. Staff from the Riverside County Department of Public Health identified six schools with whom to establish partnerships and improve the walk-ability of the surrounding communities. An initial characterization of potential threats to child safety was needed. Risk quantification was performed by plotting traffic collisions within a 2 mile radius of each school using non-address-specific street data from the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS). Local SRTS project staff will utilize these maps to, 1) quickly communicate the relative traffic safety of each community; 2) identify traffic routes that appear dangerous to pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicles in general, and examine these areas further to describe potential causal factors or road hazards; 3) advocate alternative routes that minimize risk to pedestrian and bicycle traffic; and, 4) guide future evaluation and analysis. ID: 44 Mapping Tire Piles with Satellites Saves California Agency Time and Money

Catherine Huybrechts Endpoint Environmental, LLC Up to 40 million tires are disposed of legally and illegally in California every year and. Illegal tire disposal poses a significant fiscal and environmental threat. Previous methods used to locate and manage tire piles were time-consuming and costly. Staff at

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Program Abstracts Endpoint Environmental (2E) originally helped develop an algorithm while working at NASA Ames Research center in a proof-of-concept project funded by California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB). The TIRe – Tire Identification from Reflectance – Model identifies tire piles as small as 12 square meters, or approximately 100 grouped tires, in IKONOS imagery. This mapping method in conjunction with other resources has been found to save government agencies significant field inspection time and financial resources. ID: 45 Using web-based GIS in environmental compliance at PG&E

Kassim Visram Pacific Gas & Electric Company Pacific Gas and Electric Company operates and maintains an extensive network of gas and electric transmission and distribution lines in a service area encompassing approximately 70,000 square miles in 48 of California’s 58 counties and serving more than 4.9 million electricity customers and 3.9 million natural gas customers. Maintenance of this critical infrastructure is mandated by both state and federal laws in order to guarantee safe and reliable energy to its customers. This maintenance also has to be done in compliance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations related to habitat protection, endangered species, soil disturbance, and pollutants. This presentation will show how web-based GIS is being used to streamline and enhance the internal environmental review process. Challenging issues such as data quality, availability, and appropriateness will also be discussed. ID: 47 West Nile Virus Surveillance for Santa Clara County in 2006

Dr. Noor S. Tietze Santa Clara County Vector Control District The Santa Clara County Vector Control District has relied upon GIS technology to track the mosquitoborne disease, West Nile virus (WNV) and optimize operational mosquito control efforts in the county during the last three years. GIS has become an indispensable tool in this environmental health program by tracking local WNV foci, describing spacio-temporal distribution of mosquito vectors, notification of residents in “high risk areas” and identification of senior centers, where residents are at higher risk of contracting this potentially-deadly disease. During 2006, the district detected and mapped WNV in 217 birds, 18 mosquito samples, 1 squirrel and 1 horse. Based on clusters of WNV positive dead birds and positive mosquito pools, “high risk zones” were delineated and targeted for both mosquito abatement and informational mass mailings to communicate WNV prevention, swimming pool maintenance and notification of community meetings or planned mosquito fogging events. ID: 48 Managing a GIS-GPS Certificate Program

Binita Sinha Diablo Valley College Students in the workforce enroll in evening courses in geospatial technologies to improve their competitiveness. Their experience, academic background, and computer skills vary widely, challenging instructors’ lesson plans and pace. Six core courses are offered and will be discussed. Students in the Intro GPS course learn to integrate paper maps and field data. The remote sensing lab uses professional software that is excellent for the workplace, but challenges students with less computer skill. The advanced GPS course uses sophisticated equipment. A well-equipped GIS lab provides introductory and advanced training and the curriculum accommodates students with varying levels of preparation. ID: 49 Imagery and GIS in the legal environment

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Historical aerial photography has demonstrated its value when used in a variety of research subjects like geology, environmental science and planning. HJW Geospatial, Inc. has increased this use by providing historical aerial photos in a GIS environment to help legal clients involved in property disputes. By presenting a visually clear understanding of property use and the spatial relationships of property lines and land use, legal clients are able to gain favorable legal judgments for small yet valuable properties. This presentation will study a prescriptive easement lawsuit and how historical images were interpreted and presented resulting in a positive judgment. ID: 50 Centerline Map of San Francisco

Michael Webster San Francisco State University Street Centerline Index Map, San Francisco, California. The City and County of San Francisco’s Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Street Use and Mapping use centerlines to map and store street features in the city. There was a need for a large format map with locational indexing of all the streets in the city including all private “unnamed” streets in the city. This cartographic project includes street, arterial and freeway centerline symbology with the goal of labeling all centerline features. Also included in the map are neighborhoods, business districts and some regional features. The map was created exclusively with ESRI ArcMap 9.1, utilizing the Maplex extension to create geodatabase annotation to manage all labeling. ID: 51 Identifying San Joaquin County Census Tracts With Late Prenatal Care Using GIS

Karen Pfister San Joaquin County Public Health Services Birth certificate data was used to calculate the rate of individuals with late entry into prenatal care by zip code. A zip code within the county that had both a high rate of late entry into prenatal care and a high density population was then selected to analyze further. Because the zip code was so large GIS was used to map late prenatal care cases within this zip code by census tract to see if a smaller area could be identified to target. The resulting map showed one census tract within the zip code that had a high rate compared to the other census tracts. Presenting the data geographically allowed program staff to identify a more focused area to do outreach. This was extremely helpful as there are limited staff and resources within this program. Furthermore, this analysis identified an area that was not previously known to be disproportionately affected. ID: 52 Creative Commons and Geographic Information Systems

Blair Adams City County of San Francisco Creative commons (cc) promotes the simple concept of global collaboration. In order to gain the most benefit from (cc) in the realm of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a key ingredient will be a common development platform and data model. With the continued maturity of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the advent of server virtualization, the time seems right for a GIS creative commons. Advances in FOSS such as spatially-aware database extensions, web map servers, and Web 2.0 interfaces means that it’s never been easier to develop a virtualized turn-key application stack complete with data model. By eliminating steep software license costs and by greatly reducing deployment labor costs, FOSS now appears to be a viable solution. The outstanding questions that remain are those of functionality and reliability. The City and County of San Francisco is currently exploring these concepts through an internal research and development initiative and invites CalGIS attendees to share in our findings.

ID: 53 The Next Big One: Mitigating Catastrophe with GIS

John Radke University of California, Berkeley The Geographic Information Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, is part of a multidisciplinary initiative developing strategies for assessing the risks of natural disasters. Formed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM) brings to bear expertise from environmental law, resource economics, organizational behavior, engineering (specifically in the areas of earthquake and hydrology). The current focus is the impending threat to the Sacramento River delta, where a century of problematic human intervention coupled with a recent surge in development and population expansion have exacerbated the dangers posed by nature. GIS is the integrative technology in the visualization of findings and the building of an environmental digital library. ID: 54 Migrating Parcel Data From CAD to Geodatabase - Was it Really Worth it?

Gulla Gisladottir County of Santa Cruz, Assessor's Office When the County of Santa Cruz, California, migrated its GIS from a CAD based mainframe platform to an SDE/SQL Geodatabase in 2004, the Assessor’s Office started maintaining the parcel base in GIS. Migrating to new software and changing the data structure and workflow, proved to be a rather daunting task. In order to minimize the impact, the Cadastral Data model and the new workflow were designed to maintain as much consistency as possible. Find out how and why we did it, what we learned and whether the investment was worthwhile. ID: 55 Modeling our 3D World with Google Earth and Google SketchUp

Wei Luo Google Geographic data have traditionally been employed by professionals with substantial training in Geographic Science and tools. Today, however, the general public is able to access geographic information via various easy-to-use platforms including online mapping, portable GPS units, and portable navigation systems. The general public is increasingly used to interpreting and using geographic data. Google Earth, a free geographic data viewer, is a popular tool with millions of users. The easy-to-use Google SketchUp provides the general public with 3D modeling capability. The presentation will demonstrate various ways these two applications have been combined to yield powerful products. They can be used by urban designers to explore different design or planning scenarios. Any user can model his or her own neighborhood for the rest of the world to see and comment on. Using the two platforms are effective ways to solicit public participation in the decision making process. Examples of successful implementations will be shown. ID: 56 Earthquake Risk Evaluation for Gas Pipelines: Leveraging GIS Integration

Gordon Ye Pacific Gas & Electric Company Earthquakes are an important risk factor for pipeline safety in California. Pipeline engineers at Pacific Gas & Electric Company have integrated earthquake risk factors into their leading edge GIS-based pipeline integrity management program, which includes sophisticated methodology for high consequence area (HCA) determination and rigorous pipeline inspection/audit programs. Collaborating with inhouse seismologists and GIS technical experts, a fullyautomated earthquake risk evaluation tool for natural gas transmission pipelines was developed, utilizing real-time earthquake alerts from USGS. A number of earthquake scenarios are used to backup the automated algorithm in case computer systems are down after an earthquake. Integration of this

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Riti Shimkhada University of California, Los Angeles The purpose of this study was to examine neighborhood-level predictors of physical inactivity using cross-sectional surveillance data on adults 18-65 years old from the 2002 and 2005 Los Angeles County Health Survey waves, integrated with neighborhoodlevel data, which are matched to individual-level data by census tract of residence reported in the LACHS. Using data from the 2000 Census and the Southern California Association of Governments, neighborhood-level characteristics of the built environment, such as street connectivity, were assessed using GIS software. These characteristics, along with other neighborhood-level characteristics of the social environment, were assessed to estimate their independent effects on physical inactivity and potential to explain racial/ethnic disparities in physical inactivity. This study represents the many recent studies in epidemiology that have begun to use GIS technologies for exposure assessment. ID: 58 Risk of Childhood Leukemia and Brain Tumors

Chris Hooper Professor,Enertech Consultants In a UK study, Draper, et al (1) reported an association between childhood leukemia and distance from the nearest high voltage overhead line to the home address at birth to. The apparent risk was found to extend to a distance greater than would be expected if magnetic fields from high voltage lines were a causal agent (> 100 to 150 m). We plan to replicate this study in California using a similar but improved exposure assessment. We are conducting a feasibility study to identify and provide methodologies for: accurate address standardization and geocoding; determination of distance between birth address and nearest overhead high voltage transmission line; handling of multiple transmission lines and unusual residential situations; calculated estimates of average magnetic fields from the nearest transmission line; and evaluation of possible bias due to missing data and potential cofounders(2). ID: 60 Coccidioidomycosis in LA County: Spatial relationships with construction

Peter Capone-Newton MD Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Coccidioidomycosis is a reportable disease in California. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health compiles a database of incident coccidioidomycosis, a disease commonly manifested as a respiratory illness, caused by exposure to the soil fungus Coccidioides immitis. The database contains approximately 1,500 cases reported from 1992 to present with basic demographic data and geocodable addresses for 96% of cases. Although frequently cited as a reason for increased incidence rates, the relationship between man-made soil disturbances (construction) and coccidioidomycosis incidence has not been examined in previous studies, except at an aggregate level. In this study, inspection data from construction sites and building permit data were used to determine time and location of soil disturbance. Using GIS, spatial and temporal relationships between incident coccidioidomycosis cases and construction activity will be described. Unlike prior studies, GIS permitted the evaluation of spatial relationships between permit data and case data at the disaggregate level.

ID: 61 Mapping Nonnative Aquatic Plants with an Imageprocessing Algorithm

Catherine Huybrechts Endpoint Environmental Egeria densa, a nonnative waterweed thriving in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Delta), poses taxing problems to its host environment and the surrounding agricultural and urban communities. To understand the spatial distribution of the plant, mapping is necessary. Mapping with remote sensing image-processing techniques can be time-consuming and demand extensive training between interpreters. To reduce the time and training necessary to map Egeria densa in imagery, Endpoint Environmental (2E) created a quick-response image-processing algorithm called the EDIPA – Egeria densa Image Processing Algorithm – Model. The EPIDA Model is capable of identifying 90 percent of Egeria densa in Quickbird imagery. Quick-response mapping means, rapidly identifying accurate spatial estimates of Egeria densa coverage for: 1) annual assessment or change detection maps, and 2) targeting chemical and physical eradication treatments. Maps produced with the EDIPA Model are beneficial to managers and stakeholders intent on diminishing the fiscal burden associated with controlling nonnative aquatic species. ID: 62 To Build a National Levee Database

Michael J. Bishop Michael Baker Jr. Corporation The U.S. is lacking a database of the levees across the nation. Details about levees are also sketchy and yet millions of citizens and dollars of assets are located in floodplains behind levees. USACE and FEMA developed a comprehensive National Levee Datasbase (NLD) Data Model built on geospatial technologies. While USACE is interested in mapping “Federal” levees, FEMA’s interests lie in mapping all levees certified to protect against a 100 year flood which are mapped on Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) as protecting. The FIRM mapped levees will be attributed using the NLD data model. FEMA has an additional initiative to quickly map the geometry for levees nation-wide with a subset of the NLD attribution essential for answering basic questions. This effort, referred to as the Mid-term Levee Inventory, is to provide information about levee ownership, levee miles and certification, and protected floodplains so FEMA can produce national summarizations. ID: 63 Moraga-Orinda Fire District - Wildland Risk Assessment

Chris Hallford Moraga Orinda Fire District The Wildland Risk Assessment was commissioned by the Moraga-Orinda Fire District in response to the devastating Oakland Hills Fire of 1991. Characteristics of each parcel were determined utilizing Remote Sensing, GIS analysis, site visits, and professional evaluations. The resulting datasets were developed through the combined resources of a fire modeler, GIS analyst and other fire professionals. The following three aspects combined to create a cumulative risk rating: Property owner intervention, Fire suppression, Fire behavior. The analysis results are provided in an interactive web-based mapping application to facilitate ease of use and public access. Residents within the District have a means to identify their property’s Wildland Fire Hazard Risk and to take appropriate action to reduce their risk. Residents not only see a visual representation of their risk but also that of surrounding properties. Ratings are dynamic and can be updated as property improvements occur or other conditions are improved. ID: 64 Stereo Feature Mapping using NAIP ADS40 1meter Imagery

Shawn Slade Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging

The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2005 National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) collected 1-meter ground sample distance (GSD) imagery for California to prepare statewide orthoimagery. The contractors to the USDA used Leica Geosystems’ ADS40 digital sensor that records five bands of data at various look angles. An ancillary dataset from the NAIP collection is softcopy stereo imagery that is easily processed and reasonably accurate for regional mapping purposes. With support from Horizons Inc., Leica Geosystems, and Hewlett Packard Company, the California Geological Survey has been working to upgrade their landslide mapping workflow to a GIS-based softcopy stereo approach. This new approach holds the potential to drastically reduce map preparation time, improve mapping accuracies, and enhance uniformity between geologists by allowing simultaneous stereo viewing. This presentation will discuss the NAIP stereo imagery, software developments to bring the imagery into a stereo GIS, and their utility for landslide mapping and other applications. ID: 65 ADA Transition Planning Using GIS for Decision Support

George White Policy Innovation Works This purpose of this session is to provide a case study on preparing the City of Oakland Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Public Right of Way Transition Plan using a geospatial database for decision support. This presentation will demonstrate how a policy framework and workflow process becomes a vital part of creating useful geospatial databases to support decision making for a major city. The presentation will also show how GIS was used to prepare the findings, conclusions, and recommendation of the ADA Transition Plan. Finally, lessons learned for those who may seek to undertake this type of project in the future will be identified. ID: 66 Steelhead Spawning Sites and Gravel Replenishment: Patterns Within the Carmel

Eric Sandoval Monterey Peninsula Water Management District A shortage of steelhead spawning habitat on dammed rivers has increased the popularity of spawning habitat rehabilitation. Since the construction of the San Clemente dam in 1921 and Los Padres dam in 1948, the spawning gravel of the Carmel River has been trapped at these two reservoirs. Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD) implemented a gravel replenishment program to increase steelhead spawning habitat along two reaches of the Carmel River. Using GIS and spatial statistics, MPWMD has developed a method to evaluate the program’s success and optimize spatial distribution of future gravel enhancement sites. Using redd abundance, the amount of gravel (weight) and distance to replenishment sites we have developed a spatial model for habitat restoration. This model will help ensure effective management of this area for purposes of restoring steelhead populations in the Carmel River ecosystem.df ID: 67 Herding Cats and the Use of Catnip For Building Inter-Agency Collaboration

Eric Sandoval Monterey Peninsula Water Management District While the need for generating imagery may vary, many agencies can use aerial imagery from the same geographic area. Through cooperation, agencies in a region can share costs and follow comparable standards, acquiring imagery with increased resolution, accuracy, or greater geographic extent. The 2003 AMBAG Regional Orthoimagery project was meant to provide local governments and agencies with high resolution orthorectified aerial imagery. It was also meant to provide secondary products such as Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), topographic contours, and

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Program Abstracts Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data. The information and knowledge required for such an activity is best undertaken as a collaborative effort. By combining resources and relying on the experience of staff from various agencies, the project participants were able to provide agencies and companies with the information and knowledge to successfully plan and negotiate for their imaging and photographic needs. ID: 69 GIS-Based Public Warning

Art Botterell Contra Costa CountySheriff's Community Warning System The international Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) has brought geospatial technology to all sorts of public warning systems. Contra Costa County's Community Warning System (CWS) uses CAP to integrate siren, radio and TV, weather radio, telephone, Internet and wireless public warning systems. At the heart of CWS is a specialized Web Map Service (WMS) client that enables authorized officials to activate all those systems while providing enhanced situational awareness of realtime events. ID: 70 Feather River ArcIMS

Patrick J. Parsons Department of Water Resources, State of California The use of an ArcIMS intranet application to disseminate information to the project managers of a study of the pumping and use of water specific to the Feather River Corridor ID: 71 New Town, New Data and the GIS Solution

Erin Mutch Mountain House Community Services District The Mountain House Community has been described by the Associated Press as the “First New Town of the New Millennium”. Many innovative measures were taken to ensure successful project execution, including the development of a GIS. The demands for useful information from the GIS have grown with the immediate need for accurate asset inventory and GASB 34 reporting. Paper topics will include moving GIS services “in-house”, inter-agency coordination, GASB 34 requirements and design of community-wide GIS. The challenges of CAD to GIS integration will also be discussed in addition to the update of data standards for submission of improvements to accommodate data conversion into the GIS. Mobile GIS data collection techniques will be utilized and our goal is to create an enterprise Server GIS which will support our departments and ultimately the community residents. The Mountain House departments includes including community development, public works, accounting and operations & maintenance. ID: 72 Problems Encountered With Two Geocoding Methods

Colleen Reid UC Berkeley Geocoding is used to assign geographical positions to street addresses. We describe the problems encountered when geocoding using street and parcel data. Using ArcView 9.1 and GDT street data, two percent of addresses were not geocoded despite having a perfect match score, many addresses without house numbers did match when ArcView default geocoding parameters were used, and addresses with _2 tie candidates often matched to candidates having wrong zip code, directional prefix, or street suffix. Comparison of geocoding using the California Department of Health Services Environmental Health Investigations Branch 2005 TeleAtlas Address Points parcel map found 2.5% of records matched only with parcel geocoding, and 11% matched only with streetfile geocoding. Distances between the geolocated points from the two methods ranged from <10 to 1000+ m. Such problems raise concerns about geocoding when high levels of precision are necessary, such as in assigning exposure in environmental health studies.

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ID: 73 Explorations in Immersive 1:1 Scale 3-d mapping

Brian B. Quinn City of Berkeley Review of how a technology known in the media at turns as video game, social networking, and virtual economy just might leapfrog the most sincere efforts of the GIS profession when it comes to 3-d mapping. What if: the persistent virtual reality published at SecondLife.com were turned from fantasy-world applications into a precise rendition of a city's best 3-d physical feature mapping? If so, then a city would be able to maintain a persistent 3-d spatial model that could accomodate surface and subsurface features, buildings, interior furniture, and vegetation--all in a model that could be traversed and experienced simultaneously by many fullsize virtual humans serving the interests of public works or public safety staff, customer service representatives, or members of the public. ID: 74 Google Earth Enterprise Implementation at Caltrans

Roger Ewers California Department of Transportation Google Earth technologies are being implemented at Caltrans, providing a robust interface for the viewing, mining, and presentation of spatially referenced data, whether it be sourced from GIS, CADD, Surveys or Design units of Caltrans. By enabling these data types to be viewed together within a rich three-dimensional context of aerial photography, Google Earth significantly moves Caltrans forward in terms of data integration, awareness of data sources, data improvement, and reduced redundancy. Caltrans Office of GIS has already procured individual Google Earth Pro licenses on behalf of users in our Aeronautics, Design, Maintenance, Rail, R&D, Right of Way, Surveys, Operations, and Transportation System Information units. Our next step is the implementation of Google Earth Enterprise, which places the functionality of Google Earth technology completely inside the Caltrans organization, available to the entire Department, utilizing internal Caltrans imagery and data. ID: 75 "GI What?"

Ian White Urban Mapping, Inc The past five years has seen exponential growth in the number of GIS users. These neogeographers were initially consumers of geodata, but more recently they have been prolific content producers, annotating spatial data to give it meaning and value in their lives. By any estimate, neogeographers outnumber trained GIS professional by 100 to 1, yet rarely have they heard the term GIS. Geographic Information Systems has unquestionably had tremendous impact in the lives of people and organizations, but the lack of explicit understanding of the term points to a very different kind of user. This community has effectively internalized GIS, changing the way spatial data is defined, collected, stored, used and shared. Internet-based GIS is fundamentally different from traditional geospatial thinking—neogeographers require a web-based GIS, while the traditional community wants to provide a GISbased web. This tension is increasingly evident in metadata, data formats, storage and distribution. ID: 76 Creating Exhibit G Drawings that Meet FERC Standards

Brandon Oberbauer PG&E Exhibit G maps are part of the process for the regulatory approval of non-federal hydropower projects with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).They specifically show in detail all project features including access roads, tunnels, transmission lines and any other feature used within a specific “project”. This poster will outline the process PG&E has developed for creating project boundary GIS files, standardizing Exhibit G map templates, and

creating the necessary files that are submitted to FERC for approval. ID: 77 The Evolving Use and Creation of PG&E's Electrical System Map

Michael Allen PG&E The Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Electric Transmission System Map presents an overview of a major component of California's complex electric transmission grid. The GIS version of the map has evolved over a 12 year period to reflect changes in the transmission system as well as advances in mapping software. Currently in it's eighth edition, the 50"x72" map encorporates 16 layers from a variety of sources: internal company data, commercial vendors and public agencies. Used primarily as a tool for the planning and routing of future transmission projects, it also serves as a reference during major winter storms for the deployment of emergency repair services. The PG&E Electric Transmission System Map is an example of a long term group effort that has produced a valuable resource for decision making at PG&E. ID: 78 Monitoring Sedimentation in PG&E Reservoirs – Bathymetric Study

Eszter Tompos PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Company operates a vast hydroelectric system that includes 16 river basins, 68 powerhouses, 184 miles of canals and 99 reservoirs. This system provides Californians with safe, reliable and clean energy and accounts for 20% of the energy that PG&E generates. This poster demonstrates an example of how GIS is used to help with the operation and maintenance of hydroelectric assets. The goal of the study is to determine annual sedimentation levels in two of the reservoirs: Rock Creek and Cresta. Surface maps, developed from depth readings, were used to generate differential contours to highlight sedimentation aggradation/ degradation in the reservoirs. ID: 79 Call Before You Dig! – The Role of GIS in Locating Facilities in the Field

Eszter Tompos PG&E PG&E operates a vast gas and electric system much of which is underground. Digging into these lines may cause injuries and disrupt vital utility services to thousands of customers. When an excavator calls before digging, PG&E responds by marking the locations of its affected facilities. This presentation will discuss how GIS was used to transform a largely paperbased, manual process to an automated ticket processing system. Locators now wirelessly receive tickets and electronic maps in the field, resulting in significant time and cost savings. ID: 80 Digital Elevation Models - Creating and Use in the Classroom

Nathan Jennings American River College This presentation will focus on providing an overview of the 2ft DEM derived from LIDAR for the City of Sacramento. This talk will also cover how this data set was compared to a lower resolution DEM subset generated by RADAR for teaching purposes. ID: 81 Mapping Streetlights with ArcGIS

Elizabeth Proctor PG&E PG&E’s GIS group has used ArcObjects to customize an ESRI ArcMap interface to facilitate mapping and editing streetlights data throughout its service area. The Streetlight Mapping application is designed for tablet PC’s and has been deployed to field teams tasked with mapping 720,000 streetlights in about 48 California counties. The application uses a customized ArcMap interface to streamline the data collection

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Program Abstracts process, enabling users to create GIS data using numerous reference sources including aerial imagery, non-spatial “legacy” databases and scanned historic paper maps, all of which are integrated into the interface. The mapped and edited streetlights points are checked and then brought into PG&E’s enterprise GIS system, ultimately improving customer service to municipal customers as well as enabling efficient response to service calls. ID: 82 Conflation-Based Data Integrations

Samuel Smith Refractions Research Inc. Conflation involves matching features from separate datasets that are logically equivalent but spatially dissimilar. The process of conflation supports the integration of many datasets with entirely different origins, as well as the incorporation of updates to a base data-set lacking a unique key by which to tag changes directly. Refractions Research uses a collection of conflation and spatial data management tools for several large-scale data-integration and maintenance projects: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Detailed Soil Surveys, BC’s Provincial Digital Roads Atlas, BC’s Provincial Corporate Watershed Base, Statistics Canada’s Electoral Boundary and Census Blocks. This presentation will discuss the assumptions, business rules, workflow and technologies behind conflationbased integrations. Time permitting; we will present examples from specific projects. ID: 83 The Seams of a Seamless Dataset: An Investigation into Coincidental Route Centerlines and County Boundaries

Gerry Shoemaker Caltrans In California, county boundaries are legally described in a number of ways: with surveyed points, bearings, and distances; by reference to a known physical landmark, such as a ridge or a river; or where the county boundary runs along a road or highway. Many of these have changed since the initial record was established. Physical features have been eroded, dammed, and quarried. Roads have been reconstructed, sometimes with massive grading and alignment changes. For Caltrans, such changes are critical. County boundaries form the seams of a statewide centerline dataset, between the data of two counties and potentially two state plane projection zones. Additionally, where a county boundary and a state centerline are coincident, Caltrans must be able to reliably calibrate its LRS (linear referencing system) against current centerline data and existing physical structures, and to a standardized degree of spatial accuracy. The current project investigates ten sites where centerlines and county boundaries are coincident, or cross several times within a relatively short distance, but where authoritative datasets (including commercial data) differ significantly. The presentation will detail the specific scenarios found at these sites, offer background on the project within a larger Caltrans context, and discuss how to set achievable goals for data quality. ID: 84 Easy, Fast, and Convenient: Adopting Web Application Design Metrics to Develop Innovative Geospatial Applications

Dennis Wuthrich Farallon Geographics Geospatial data and GIS analyses provide knowledge across an impressive suite of industries: local government, utilities, emergency response, resource management, and many other business enterprises. Despite the ability of GIS to provide relevant insight to these industries, in most organizations only a very small minority of people can use (or afford) traditional GIS applications. The answer to improving access to geospatial information may not lie in pushing traditional GIS to the web, but instead in using the philosophy of the web (easy, fast, convenient) to

deliver geospatial knowledge to the people who need it: your clients and colleagues. This presentation explores how Google Maps, Google Earth, Microsoft Virtual Earth and other emerging technologies can be integrated with traditional GIS tools such as geodatabases and ArcGIS Server to deliver useful applications to broad user communities. These “enterprise mashups” promise to dramatically improve the dissemination of GIS data and analyses to people while significantly reducing the cost of deploying and maintaining GIS. ID: 85 Forecasting and the Value of a Spatially-enabled Enterprise GIS: Good Information Leads to Good Decisions

Jeff Saunders Farallon Geographics The goal of most Asset Management Systems is to assist municipal decision-makers in tracking the use of funds for utility maintenance and capital improvement projects. Over the past decade, these systems have come to rely on GIS for managing the past and present condition of geographically located features, whether they are sewers, storm drains, electrical utilities, street signs or pavements. But for utility managers, the real value of an integrated GIS and Asset Management System comes from the ability to more effectively budget and allocate limited resources for maintenance and operations. This presentation will highlight the advantages of using enterprise GIS to support critical decisions about resource allocation for asset management by looking at a simple yet powerful “Project Selection” pavement management application. The application offers a simple-to-use interface that enables GIS novices to import pavement "what-if" scenarios from a pavement management program, view them on the map, and then test how different pavement treatment decisions drive future budget requirements. ID: 86 Squeezing Value From Your Enterprise Geodatabase

Adam Lodge Farallon Geographics Progressive organizations have spent millions of dollars over the past decade collecting geodata, purchasing and deploying GIS software, and executing workflows to maintain their enterprise GIS. This critical investment affords centralized management of (and access to) geodata by the organization's desktop GIS experts. But the promise of traditional GIS to deliver high value, data rich applications to non-expert users too-often falls short. However, there are forwardlooking strategies like decentralized databases and non-traditional visualization tools that can close the gap between your GIS investment and its potential business value. Learn about innovative strategies and technologies that will help you squeeze that gap.

Based on eSpatial’s iSMART®, the City of Houston's Public Works and Engineering Department has deployed a Work Order and Service Monitoring Application. This application extends a legacy system that registers problems derived from customer complaints or inspections, resources used to solve those problems (materials and labor), and tracks the budget dedicated to water and wastewater issues and maintenance. iSMART extends this system by providing a Web based, enterprise solution integrated with reporting and monitoring tools. The system, an intuitive application developed over just few months, analyzes historic data and represents this data in a graphical and easy to use manner that permits the users to view the work status over maps of the City of Houston . It shows the City quadrant displaying the current active or work in progress work orders and open Citizen Requests. ID: 89 Annual Changes in Community Risk Factors and Characteristics

Don Taylor California Department of Education The First 5 California GIS is a statewide, online, multiprogram needs assessment system used to track annual changes and inform evolving First 5 needs, systems integration and resource allocation activities targeting the health, education, and family functioning aspects of a young child’s life. Risk factors include elementary schools ranking in the lower three deciles on the California Academic Performance Index, and census tract “hot spots” of teenage birth and inadequate prenatal care utilization. Community resources include state preschool sites, elementary schools, family resource centers, First 5 and Healthy Start-funded elementary schools, WIC sites, Cal-SAFE sites, physician offices, hospitals, and various health clinics. Community characteristics include census tract estimates of children aged 0-5 years and demographic variables among women giving birth. We will demonstrate the First 5 California GIS and discuss how risk factors and community characteristics vary in relation to resources across geography and time. ID: 90 Waterway Maintenance and Geospatial Information

Thomas Moorhouse Clean Lakes, Inc. Open water, near shore and riparian area aquatic vegetation management techniques require accurate information to plan, implement, and monitor projects in a challenging environment. Commercially available web based data, aerial imagery, GIS and GPS are increasingly being used for a variety of requirements from accurately quantifying abundance and distribution of target species to regulatory reporting. Techniques being used will be presented.

ID: 87 Developing Web Applications with Public and Freely Available APIs

ID: 91 Mobile (and other) Integration of GIS Data through the use of XML and Services

Alexei Peters Farallon Geographics The GIS world changed when Google Earth was introduced. Subsequently, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all developed extensive and free Application Programming Interface (API’s) for their respective online mapping products. These companies spent lots of time and money developing the data and API’s necessary to support millions of users, and now you can leverage that time and effort to disseminate your own GIS data. This presentation will demonstrate some of the possibilities of integrating your GIS data with one of the freely available API’s. Also explained will be some of the limitations and advantages of this integration as well as data security. Welcome to the future of GIS!

Ian Fitzgerald, GISP Truckee Donner Public Utility District Data models, database software, domain lists all are both different between systems you wish to integrate, and through time will continue to change. Customizing integration between two systems, without the ability easily and cheaply modify those changes within the customization, can have a profound effect on your business, and bottom line. Using XML and Windows Services will ensure integration occurs near real-time, with fail safe methodology, and easy configuration as products change over time, without any re-customization or programming of the interface. This integration is the wave of the future, and the methodology required to build such integration will be discussed.

ID: 88 Work Order and Service Request Monitoring System at the City of Houston

ID: 92 3D Viewing of GIS layers and DEMs to Improve Mapping

Jon Polay eSpatial

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Program Abstracts DEMs are readily available to support interpretations of environment and geology. These DEMs have been generated using photogrammetry, IfSAR, and LiDAR. Because most of us perceive the world in 3D, using DEMs to create 3D models makes it easier for us (and our clients, stakeholders, and the pubic) to understand the data we have compiled in our GIS. Synthetic stereoscopic pairs can be created by draping images or maps on a DEM and offsetting corresponding pixels in the left and right image by an amount equivalent to their elevation. Vertical exaggeration can be modified – it can be significantly increased to accentuate subtle topographic features in flat terrain. The synthetic stereo pairs can be digitally mapped in a GIS, or left-right color images and red/blue anaglyphs can be plotted. Vector lines (proposed pipelines, roads, parcel boundaries, etc.) can be embedded so that they are seen in 3D. Drainage derived from DEMs can be integrated and pollution sources more accurately identified. Vegetation patterns that are influenced by slope, aspect, and elevation are interpreted more accurately when viewed in stereo. Red/blue anaglyphs can be e-mailed as georeferenced jpgs for GIS or “GeoPDFs”. ID: 94 Extending Your GIS with Open Source

Charlie Crocker Autodesk To help make it easier for developers to extend the data access capabilities of their spatial applications, Autodesk released their FDO Data Access Technology (FDO) as an open source project under the Open Source Geospatial Foundation™ (OSGeo™). This initiative enables developers to tap into and extend this powerful geospatial data access technology. FDO enables users to work seamlessly and natively on a variety of spatial and nonspatial databases, file formats and web services, without the need for translation and risk of data loss. We will show the power of FDO and how easy it is to leverage several FDO Providers recently developed by the open source community. These providers extend the data sources available to both server and desktop GIS applications. You will leave this session understanding more about, FDO, why Autodesk open sourced this key technology, and how easy it is to extend the power of your GIS. ID: 95 Incorporating LiDAR Data into City of San José Workflows

Vicky A Gallardo City of San José In 2006, the City of San José, in cooperation with the County of Santa Clara and the Santa Clara Valley Water District, launched a major project to acquire county wide LiDAR data with deliverables such as raw LiDAR files both classified and unclassified, a Digital Surface Model and a Bare Earth Model, 1 and 5 foot contours, extracted vegetation and structure layers, and a top of bank layer for rivers, creeks and canals. This data is to be used for multiple GIS, engineering and environmental purposes such as planning construction and maintenance, site assessment, flood plain mapping, and slope and viewshed analysis. Incorporation of such valuable and voluminous datasets into City workflows has proven challenging. This talk will outline some of the issues that had to be overcome to incorporate LiDAR data into City workflows and cover lessons learned thus far from such a large data implementation. ID: 96 Leveraging your Geodatabase as a Business System

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a GIS Manager this approach presents the question of how do geospatial technologies provide the functional importance necessary to meet the dynamics of a changing world. There are many obstacles that make the development of a system like this difficult. Even though geospatial technologies have been prevalent for the last few decades their utilization as a business system has been restricted. The bulk of this challenge has been how to create a paradigm shift in the ways people visualize and interact with spatial data, maps and cartographic renderings. ID: 97 Custom Tools Used for Workflow Management and QA Processes in a Digital Landbase

Mark Morrison Michael Baker, Jr., Inc. The AT&T Nevada and California GIS West team has customized several tools to improve its workflow, streamlining production and QA processes for the purposes of maintaining a digital landbase of streets, parcels, and easements. Many ESRI tools are used out of the box, but other tools have been modified or custom-created by the GIS team to maximize performance and quality. The purpose of the session is to demonstrate some of these customized tools, such as the job tracking tool, which interacts with the database regarding all pertinent information for each job. A few tools that will be shown accelerate productivity and reduce error during the attribution process on both streets and parcel polygons. Other editing and QA tools will be shown and discussed in the context of the project and how the tools could be used to enhance quality assurance for any company’s GIS landbase project. ID: 98 Web based mapping

Eric Waldman Microsoft Virtual Earth Team It started in the late 90’s with simple mapping and directions. Web based mapping environments have shifted into overdrive with the advent of high resolution aerial and oblique (birds-eye) imagery, hybrid mapping, and immersive 3D technology. Recent innovations in web mapping technology and content have created new markets of users and have opened the door to a wide array of developers. What is driving this revolution? Where is it taking us? What sorts of applications can we expect in the near future? ID: 99 GIS Professional Certification and GISCI

RuthAnne Harbison City of Merced This Power Point presentation was developed by the GIS Certification Institute. It provides information on the professional certification process, how to determine points necessary to qualify in the pointbased system, how the process works, and GISCI Initiatives. Those attending this session will gain insite about professional certification in GIS. ID: 100 Applied GIS: Mapping Environmental Health Data

Galatea King California Environmental Health Tracking Program As a component of the Central Valley/South Coast Children’s Environmental Health Demonstration Project (CV/SC), the California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP) explored the use of GIS to display environmental health data that is useful and accessible to the public. To map adverse birth outcomes, CEHTP used a process called density estimation mapping. This method involved calculating a grid of points regularly spaced at 0.5 mile intervals, which resulted in overlapping buffers around each point. Simulated rates of birth outcomes were assigned to each point on the grid. Continuous, or raster, surfaces were generated using an inverse distance weighting algorithm that considered the values of the nearest eight buffer centroids. Members of the CV/SC Advisory Group played an integral role in informing

the data analysis and creation of maps. The AG members have used these maps to identify communities with high rates which could then be targeted for public health action. ID: 101 Planning With GPS

David Jacobus RBF Consulting Over the last several months, the RBF Consulting GIS Department has been incorporating the use of GPS data collection into a number of different public sector planning projects. With the use of ESRI’s ArcPad 7 & Trimble’s GeoXT hand held receivers, RBF staff has been able to efficiently save time & money by collecting GPS data. The data collected was incorporated with various planning projects such as blight & inventory surveys, Master Plan updates & Transportation Planning projects. For this presentation, I will show examples of projects that RBF successfully delivered to out clients with the help of GPS data collection, and how they are using that data to their benefit today. ID: 102 Local Update of Census Addresses Program

Linda Akers US Census Bureau The Local Update of Census Addresses program, also known as LUCA, is a decennial census geographic partnership program that will allow the Census Bureau to benefit from local knowledge in developing its Master Address File (MAF) for the 2010 Census. Tribal and local governments can contribute to a more complete enumeration for their community by reviewing and commenting on the list of housing unit and group quarters addresses that the Census Bureau will use to deliver questionnaires within their community. This hour long presentation will focus on LUCA program concepts, requirements and schedule as well as introduce the different participation options available to local, state and tribal governments. ID: 103 Lessons Learned with Rapid Deployment of Web Enabling Geodata/Applications at City of San Mateo

Patrick Crevelt City of San Mateo Never has it been easier to build and deploy web based GIS applications. Web enabling data quickly also provides a great opportunity to continue to educate and promote the value of GIS for city-wide applications. However, with the benefit comes limitations and this session will discuss some of the pitfalls of rapidly deploying data over the internet or your intranet and where City of San Mateo is moving to solve these issues. Specific highlight will be; user interface design, challenges with integrating vector and raster geodata, selecting which data platform (vector vs raster) to build the web applications, managing customer expectations and more. ID: 104 Parcel Basemap Geodata: Resolving the Public Records Controversy

Moderator: Bruce Joffe GIS Consultants The California First Amendment Coalition lawsuit against Santa Clara County, in wake of the California Attorney General's opinion that the distribution of public-agency parcel data falls under the purview of the California Public Records Act, suggests that public officials responsible for parcel mapping may want to revise their current distribution policy. This session reviews the legal, political, and economic issues (public access vs. the cost of data maintenance), and it offers five strategies toward resolution that may be acceptable to many points of view. Constructive discussion among session attendees is expected. ID: 105 Digital Parcel Map Data Sharing Standards Issues and Remedies

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Program Abstracts There is a healthy common culture emerging out of the operations of over 55 out of the 58 Counties in the State of California. However, many newly created parcel GIS databases, and some old ones, currently use procedures so diverse they pose serious obstacles to the creation of seamless regional/state cadastres. This panel explores emerging interests in reducing these obstacles from a state, local and private sector perspective. Also discussed, is how this goal can be best met as a task within “GIS Commons”. ID: 106 Contemporary Environmental Conservation in San Diego County, California

Melanie Casey County of San Diego, Dept of Planning and Land Use The Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) is a comprehensive, long- term habitat conservation plan which addresses the needs of species and preservation of natural vegetation communities in the unincorporated area of San Diego County. The goal of the plan is to maintain and enhance biological diversity in the region and maintain viable populations of endangered, threatened, and key sensitive species and their habitats while promoting regional economic viability. Geographic Information Systems are being implemented to assist in making decisions regarding species coverage and preserve design. Application of many aspects of GIS are presented through example of this conservation plan for the east portion of San Diego County. ID: 107 GIS in DoC - It's More Than Just Paper Maps

Robert Yoha California Department of Conservation If you are looking for GIS information on land conservation programs, oil and gas resources, mineral resources, geologic and seismic hazards, earthquake information or even beverage container recycling zones, you’ll find it in the Department of Conservation (DoC). GIS in DoC started with one workstation and three people in 1980. Today, 16 programs and more than 100 technical staff use geospatial technology to: monitor loss of farmland and urbanization; conserve open space; manage the State's oil, gas and geothermal resources; zone seismic hazards such as liquefaction and slope failure; remediate abandoned mines; and, map mineral resources and geologic hazards such as asbestos and radon – just to name a few things we do. In the process, staff have developed new approaches such as using radar and LIDAR for terrain mapping and slope analysis; 3-D visualization; hyperspectral analysis of structural geology; putting the USGS DOQQs into the public domain, and more. ID: 108 San Mateo County Fire Jurisdiction Map

Jie He San Mateo County This map illustrates the Fire Agencies’ plan check responsibility area through out the San Mateo County. The uniqueness of the map is: 1)It not only identify each fire Jurisdiction’s responsible area as to distinguish from others, it also show the unincorporated county land that contract their fire responsibility to surround fire agencies other than CDF (California State Department of Fire and Forest). The color themes illustrate the relationship between those areas and their corresponding contracted fire agency. 2)It delineates the special tax areas that belong to San Mateo County, but pay tax to special agencies other than San Mateo County. 3)It shows all the fire stations through out the county. 4)The maps has been used by CDF, 14 fire jurisdictions in the county, LAFCo and county manager office on tax distribution and some fire jurisdiction merge issues. ID: 109 GIS in the organization

John Huie Contra Costa County How can GIS be positioned within an organization to stage it for success? Particularly when the organization is large and complex? This presentation will use Contra

Costa County experience to discuss some models that have worked well for us. We will spend time discussing how GIS is funded, how it was "sold" to the organization, what the oversight and governance model looks like, what we do to encourage collaboration across departments, how we measure success, what types of products have come out of the effort and where we see GIS headed for us over the next few years. We will also welcome open discussion and solicit input from other agencies that have alternative models that have worked well for them. ID: 110 Promoting the value of GIS: California Department of Health Services experience

Svetlana Smorodinsky California Department of Health Services California Department of Health Services (CDHS) increasingly has been utilizing GIS technology in many of its programs, ranging from emergency preparedness and environmental health surveillance to mapping nutrition data and teen birth rates. Still, many CDHS staff and managers are not aware of GIS or how this technology may complement their work as a visualization, analysis and decision-support tool. To this effect, a team of CDHS GIS users has organized a variety of activities to promote understanding of GIS and its value within the Department. In 2006, the first CDHS GIS Day had over 300 individuals from Sacramento and Richmond offices participate in the demonstrations, poster displays, a noon-time lecture, the CDHS GIS Day Intranet/Extranet Site, and the “Where in California Are You?” contest. In this presentation, we will discuss the outreach efforts and projects at CDHS that promote the value of GIS, while standardizing its use among programs. ID: 111 UCB Fire Center: Providing science-based solutions to wildfire-related challenge

Casey Cleve UC Berkeley The UC Berkeley Center for Fire Research and Outreach was established in 2005, with the mission to provide tools and science-based solutions to wildfirerelated challenges. This presentation will provide an overview of our three current key activities: creating a statewide urban “burnability” index map for California in collaboration with California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; investigating the spatial relationship between extreme fire weather and fire frequency using high-resolution modeled weather data; and the development of the Fire Information Engine Toolkit. The FIE Toolkit allows homeowners and communities to better understand parcel level fire hazards using a science-based wildfire hazard assessment and interactive web-based mapping application. It also provides search-by-address wildfire maps for California, up-to-the-minute wildfire news, and the California Active Fire Mapper. ID: 112 An Overview of the Benefits and Uniqueness of LiDAR Terrain Data for Regional Mapping Projects

Devin Kelley HJW GeoSpatial, Inc LiDAR-derived terrain data continues to gain wide-spread acceptance as a fast turnaround, cost effective, highlyaccurate solution for regional terrain data products. During 2006, HJW GeoSpatial was involved with roughly 2500 square miles of LiDAR related processing, mainly for countywide datasets. LiDAR terrain data has unique qualities that can provide dramatic benefits over traditional data sources. These same unique qualities must be understood by the data end-user, in order to get the most out of the data, and use it appropriately. In addition to its obvious use for bare-earth terrain information, LiDAR data is inherently rich with feature information that can be extracted, modeled and analyzed in GIS environments. This paper outlines specific benefits of LiDAR that make it appealing, as well the unique characteristics that make it different from traditional aerial mapping terrain products.

ID: 113 Real-time, Real-world Location-enabled Service Oriented Architectures

Justin M. Lokitz Acquis, Inc. Location information is ubiquitous; it can be found across all lines of business, all industries, and in virtually every organization in the world. However, as ever-present as location information seems to be, enterprises often rely on geographical information systems that are far removed from the overall enterprise (enterprise data and business processes). In this session we will discuss how location information can play a part in the wider enterprise: via SOA. ID: 116 Spatial Analysis of Selenium in the Salton Sea

Seth Stark CH2M Hill As part of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report prepared by the California Department of Fish and Game and the Department of Water Resources with assistance from CH2M HILL, spatial analysis of selenium in the Salton Sea was performed for the no action alternatives and eight proposed alternatives for ecosystem restoration at the Sea. Both historic and modern selenium samples were used in the analysis, requiring the data to be compiled into a single database. Once the database was created, ESRI's Spatial Analyst extension was used to interpolate a raster dataset for the entire Sea based on 360 historic and modern samples ranging in date from 1995 to 2005. Using the interpolated data and the actual sample points, analysis was performed to determine amounts of selenium present in each proposed habitat type for each of the alternatives. This paper discusses the methods used for that analysis and the results. ID: 117 CIRGIS participation in the National Map

Paul Van Zuyle Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative The Channel Islands Regional GIS Collaborative publishes a Web Mapping Service (WMS) for inclusion in the National Map. With assistance from the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Cooperative Agreement Program, CIRGIS has collected data from members, established an ArcIMS server that uses both local and distributed data, and developed applications that use these resources. Along the way, CIRGIS learned how to tap both the data resources and the technical capabilities of its members, and to overcome some of the difficulties inherent in interagency cooperation. The benefits of the project include broader availability of local data to homeland security and emergency responders, and a platform for building local and regional GIS applications that can be shared across many users. The data in the CIRGIS service includes parcels, high-resolution color imagery, elevations from LIDAR and address points, and is easily combined with other data in applications such ArcExplorer Web Edition ID: 118 Qui est Roi de la Monarchie?

Fred Vogler Marin County Community Development Agency The metaphor for a government organization is a monarchy (not a business). It is inappropriate and selfdefeating to use business evaluators such as return on investment to assess “value” when departments rarely know the cost of providing a given service. The best way to show the value of GIS is to please the King. Here’s how. ID: 119 Use of GIS in Mapping Levee Foundation Materials - Sacramento Delta Region

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Won Yi @City This presentation will demonstrate the latest technology in web-based street-level imagery and how it helped the City of Livermore to achieve savings, productivity increase and service enhancement that resulted in winning of the Grand Prize of Helen Putnam Award for Excellence at the League of California Cities in 2006. Citywide deployment of the street-level imagery benefited multiple departments of city government with useful features such as 360degree panoramic view at every data capture point, visual management of above-ground infrastructure, public safety, quick search of images by multiple criteria, measurement and data extraction. This imagery can be easily integrated with other geospatial softwares and database for multiple applications and collaboration over the intranet by multiple departments like Public Works, Police, Planning, etc. ID: 121 Infill Development Planning using GIS Modeling with Parcel Information Gaps

Doug Mende Psomas As developable land becomes scarce and more expensive in California, developers are designing urban infill projects using fragmented reusable and vacant land within city cores. This has occurred for several decades in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange Counties. Currently, the Inland Empire and Central Valley regions are experiencing these more intensified demands for infill development. In response to this, government is struggling to managing growth through various policies. Combined with smart growth initiatives, infill development planning is seen as a way to limit sprawl, provide savings in transportation and infrastructure costs, conserve agricultural land, and cause less damage to natural habitats. GIS has been used in every large infill development model. However, are GIS methods showing us an accurate representation of infill potential? This study provides a look at several sites where GIS modeled data is compared to field tested data with City planning staff inputs on what is being formally proposed. The results are surprisingly intriguing. ID: 122 Mapping a Measure of HIV Acquisition Risk in San Diego County

Rebecca L. Horne California Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS In preparation for a survey of heterosexual San Diego County residents at increased risk for HIV infection, ArcGIS was used to create a choropleth map of High Risk Areas (HRAs). HRAs were defined as zip codes with high rates of HIV/AIDS attributed to heterosexual exposure (from California’s HIV/AIDS Reporting System) and high rates of poverty (from the 2000 Census). A measure of HIV risk for each zip code was created by summing the standardized morbidity ratio for HIV/AIDS and that for poverty. Zip codes above a specific cut-off point were selected as HRAs. These selected HRAs 1) serve as the focal point for the study’s goal of assessing HIV risk behaviors, testing behaviors, and prevention among the target population, 2) are the basis of the social network

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based sampling methodology where HRA residents may refer others into the study, and 3) informed the location of appropriate interview sites. ID: 123 Finding Your Spatial Return on Investment in Local Government

Stephen Hoffman Intergraph The days of implementing spatial systems because others were doing it or because it “made sense” are over. More and more often, those tasked with implementing spatial systems in local government are being forced to demonstrate what the return on investment (ROI) will be so that decision makers can prioritize among the many requests for funds that they face. This paper explains ROI in local government terms which are often different than a private sector bottom line. The paper also describes ways to begin to measure ROI in local government and suggests where to find your largest ROI. Where to find your ROI can vary greatly depending upon the level of spatial maturity of your organization. In conclusion, several real world examples will be used to illustrate how ROI can be achieved and measured. ID: 124 Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Substructure Utility Database at LAX

Mike Sabbatino Carter & Burgess Los Angeles World Airports has been engaged for several years in the development of a comprehensive substructure utility database. The first major accomplishments of the LUSAD (LAWA Utility Survey and Documentation) project resulted in the development of a record drawing inventory, a utility database, and viewing tools for LAX. As LAWA initiates the development of similar data at its other airport campuses in Ontario, Van Nuys, and Palmdale we have taken time to revisit the approach taken for LAX. From this assessment, we have developed an understanding of what worked, what didn’t, and what we might have done differently. As a result of this honest assessment, a revised project approach has been developed to tackle the data development and integration activities for the other airports. ID: 125 Using Google Maps to Present Environmental Health Data

Melvin S. Bernstein Alameda County Using GIS plus Alameda County Department of Environmental Health program data, this Google Maps application ("Google Maps Analyzer") creates browserbased displays showing facility/site locations exhibiting a certain characteristic(s). In addition to a map, two popups are produced: (1) A detail table window lists data by facility/site. (2) A map marker navigation window contains links by facility/site name. The website is currently limited to internal use. ID: 126 Variations in Pipeline Diameter by County

Yara Jasso CDM Poster was completed to show pipeline diameter in various counties. ID: 127 Synergy Between DFIRM Updates and HAZUS®MH Assessment for Orange County, CA

Ray Lenaburg FEMA A pilot project intended to demonstrate the synergy between Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s Map Modernization update of a countywide Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) for Orange County, CA and FEMA’s HAZard U.S., Multi-Hazard (HAZUS®MH) developed for FEMA by the National Institute of Building Standards, natural hazard loss estimation software, with products useful to emergency preparedness and mitigation planning.

HAZUS®MH will be a tool used to create a Countywide Risk Assessment Report for flood and earthquake, and a Guidelines Document to allow other counties or communities to conduct a similar enhancement, will be useful for mitigation planning, public outreach, disaster preparedness, and response planning. At the end of this pilot project, FEMA intends for Orange County to have an updated DFIRM as well as material required to update their Hazard Mitigation Plan and additional data ready for risk assessment and emergency preparedness. ID: 128 Bay Area Business Park Catalog

Steve Raney Cities21.org Commute analysis, aerial imagery, and advanced transportation route maps of 17 Bay Area job centers. Data enables mathematically optimized bus route planning and improves “commute trip reduction” target marketing. Includes comparisons of data quality from different sources. The 17 centers support a total of 594,000 jobs. Solo driving commute mode share varies from 85% to 65%. Project funding comes from a U.S. EPA sustainability study, “Transforming Office Parks into Transit Villages.” The study pioneers new ways to reduce suburban climate impact. ID: 129 Integrating Spatial Technology Across a State Enterprise

Jeff Akers CH2M HILL Enterprise Management Solutions Arnold Schwarzenegger recently announced the need to invest billions of dollars across the entire state of California in the area of infrastructure redevelopment. This investment will touch virtually every major department across the entire state enterprise. The concept of spatially-enabling this infrastructure investment has significant return on investment impact for the entire campaign. As part of this presentation, case studies will include an enterprise-wide solution being implemented for Knox County, TN that addresses more than 100 work processes, as well as a spatial solution addressing land management and emergency response needs. ID: 130 GIS Data Quality Management Shortcomings, Failings of the GIS Community

Craig Gooch Psomas It is often said that data is the heart of a GIS. If so, bypass surgery may be in order for the public sector GIS community. Enterprise GIS applications demand robust data, the equivalent of continuously running a marathon. Sadly, many agencies are not adequately prepared for the race. Experience working with hundreds of local governments’ data sources indicates data management practices are highly varied and often inadequate to address the demands of today’s GIS application needs. Often data quality reflects minimum needs for a narrowly defined use, and thus falls short in fulfilling broader organizational needs. Today’s trends towards enterprise GIS enables enhanced delivery of government services, yet expectation fulfillment is hampered by poor data quality from legacy systems and affected by poor management practices. This paper will present a series of best practices that may be applied at any stage of the data development and maintenance lifecycle. Industry data standards and best practices present a structured approach for defining and delivering data that fulfills organizational needs and anticipates future needs. These practices may be applied as a comprehensive methodology or individually adapted to address specific needs. ID: 131 GIS Development Through Collaborative Government Partnerships

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Program Abstracts Many successful GIS projects have been accomplished by government agencies helping government agencies. Agencies with years of GIS experience have often shared knowledge and business applications with those who are just starting out and are looking to take their capabilities to the next level. Collaboration happens in many different ways, including shared data collection initiatives, application code sharing agreements, and shared funding to build new or enhance existing GIS-enabled applications. This presentation will discuss several successful initiatives from around the country where collaboration has been the key to successful GIS applications. The examples cover specific collaboration efforts that have occurred among 1)state/local agencies in a state, 2)state agencies from different states, 3)Federal & state agencies. The presentation will also discuss the benefits of collaboration, such as reducing the cost of GIS implementation and the specific collaboration agreements that were used to ensure everyone benefited from the collaboration. ID: 132 Using GIS and a Database Application to improve Stormwater Management in SD Bay

Rick Hendrickson RBF Consulting The NPDES Municipal Stormwater Permit requires the Port of San Diego to minimize pollutants in stormwater runoff by annually inspecting facilities on Port tidelands, assessing BMP implementation, and reporting on findings. The Port and RBF Consulting developed a GIS and database application that streamlines the inspection process and greatly improves BMP assessment and annual reporting requirements. Customized electronic inspection forms are generated from the database and include a map that depicts storm drain system components associated with each facility. The database improves data management by storing annual inspection data and creating customized inspection reports, including summaries of BMP implementation. A pollutant tracing application is also being developed in conjunction with the database to allow Port staff to quickly identify possible pollutant sources when a problem is detected within the storm drain system. This GIS and database application increases the cost effectiveness of the Port’s Stormwater Program while ensuring Permit compliance. ID: 133 Using KML Regions to Display Large Data Sets in Google Earth

Roger Andre Google With the release of KML version 2.1, Google introduced the concept of Regions. With Regions, users of Google Earth now have the ability to display very large data sets without negatively impacting the performance of the application. They also have the ability to control what data is displayed over a particular location in a hierarchical fashion. Regions can be applied to any of the data types supported by Google Earth and have been successfully used to display large orthophoto mosaics, high-resolution DRG's, and very high feature-count point and linestring data sets. The ability for users to display their own data in a fashion similar to what is used to display Google's default content opens the door for a wide variety of uses. This presentation will illustrate the use of Regions in Google Earth, and discuss ways of applying them to imagery and vector data. ID: 136 GIS-Based Utility Master Planning at San Diego State University: A Case Study

Douglas Henstridge Carter & Burgess, Inc. With significant growth in enrollment and aging facilities, San Diego State University is embarking on a major capital improvement program, which may require major upgrades to existing utility infrastructure. This drove the decision to embark on a comprehensive utility master planning effort. This effort presented the

university with the opportunity to developed a comprehensive campus-wide utility system inventory supporting complete condition and capacity assessments. To support this SDSU engaged Carter & Burgess to map and locate substructure utility components, prepare a spatial database, perform condition assessment activities, and prepare a strategic plan for future utility system requirements. Beyond immediate needs, the spatial database will support maintenance and facility management and enable SDSU staff to track future location, maintenance, and condition of utilities. This will streamline how SDSU manages utility infrastructure, ensure consistent maintenance, and reduce cost associated with locating or repairing utilities damaged during construction projects. ID: 137 Supporting California Healthcare: Using GIS in the Enterprise

Michael O'Neill CA Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development The CA Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) is in its 7th year of planning for, implementing, and improving enterprise GIS operations (EGIS). EGIS improves OSHPD’s ability to execute its missions by advancing its ability to analyze, monitor, and disseminate information about healthcare quality statewide. The data comes from healthcare facilities statewide and is used by all levels of government, insurers, consultants, health professionals, researchers, and health service providers. GIS capabilities and usage are growing at OSHPD to the point where geospatial services are becoming mission-critical. This poster will depict the many ways GIS is used currently and will be used in the future at our agency and the benefits gained from the investment in GIS technology. ID: 138 Mobile GIS and Tablet PC - Benefits and Lessons

Han Chu Psomas The Phoenix International Airport has been providing services to the citizens through its Community Noise Reduction Program (CNRP), in which noise affected residents/homes are relocated/sound mitigated. Psomas developed customized mobile GIS applications to be deployed on tablet PCs with the CNRP field personnel collecting data, fill out forms, and addressing customer requests. The program met its intended goals by improving the data currency, accuracy, and customer service level, while minimizing errors, duplicative processes, and resource requirements including staff as well as time. Although portable computing has been around, wireless technology has only recently become sufficiently advanced to allow users to have uncompromised access to enterprise GIS. Current and upcoming wireless technologies, hardware considerations, practical lessons learned by the industry, and cost/benefits will be discussed, followed by a case study. ID: 139 Improving the Accuracy and Completeness of Utility Data at MCAS Miramar

David S. Johnson Intergraph MCAS Miramar has been working for over 5 years to improve the accuracy and completeness of their GIS data. This presentation will focus on methods used to improve data quality. Survey grade 3D GPS was used to collect over 10,000 above ground features, an electronic as-built data base was created, 3" imagery collected and utility specialists queried as part of the process. ID: 140 Examining the Distribution of Monodominant (Dicymbe corymbosa)Tropical Forests in Guyana with Satellite Imagery

Rebecca Degagne Humboldt State University When rapid acquisition of information is necessary, remote-sensing can be a cost effective solution to

mapping landcover over large areas and in regions of the world where ground-based measurements are lacking due to physical or socioeconomic inaccessibility or high acquisition costs. This project uses GIS and low cost, medium resolution Landsat imagery to examine the regional distribution of Dicymbe corymbosa, a monodominant rainforest tree found in the Pakaraima Mountains of western Guyana. Dicymbe corymbosa forests have unique traits that may help scientists better understand the phenomenon of high species diversity in the Tropics, and act as habitat islands for numerous species of newly-discovered ectomycorrhizal fungi. Distribution information is critical to broader study of the species and for gaging appropriate future conservation actions. For this project, the value of GIS and remote sensing was demonstrated by the knowledge gained about this relatively unknown forest system on a limited budget (less than $3000). ID: 141 Avalanche Hazards on MT Shasta

David Patterson US Forest Service This presentation is a cursory analysis of probable avalanche areas on Mt.Shasta, a volcano in the Cascade Mountain Range. With approximately 15,000 visitors each year, this area was chosen as the study site due to its numerous recreation opportunities. The analysis was conducted with respect to terrain, specifically slope and aspect, and influence on potential slides. Discussion includes types of avalanches, other factors contributing to possible slides and impact on Mt. Shasta's climbing routes by these slide areas. Several maps have been created to illustrate how these slide areas are affected by terrain factors. ID: 142 GIS for the Lower Division Geography Lab

William Harmon Ohlone College In this presentation we will describe how we as geography instructors at Ohlone College, in addition to offering a GIS certificate, are integrating GIS activities and exercises into our lower division Geography Labs (Geography 101L) ID: 144 Delivering Documents – GIS for Low Cost Document Management

Jean-Paul Lavoie Geodesy The City of Palo Alto takes advantage of their GIS and its comprehensive list of city street names and address numbers to create a simple, low cost document management system that uses just a set of Windows folders and files for document storage. This system, called Dox, was created as an interim solution to bridge the gap between an aging, dedicated optical disk-based system and a future ERP system. Dox is now used across multiple departments and provides quick, spatially indexed access to thousands of scanned paper documents and digital documents. Documents are added to the system by scanning or printing to PDF (or another format) and dragging the document to the appropriate folder. They are retrieved using Windows Explorer, the City's GIS, or a smartclient application called DoxView. Dox was inexpensive to create and populate, takes little administration, and is widely used. ID: 145 Using GIS to Identify Infill Housing Opportunities in the City of Los Angeles

Dave Van Mouwerik IGIS Technologies, Inc The City of Los Angeles must meet future housing needs as defined by population projections through the year 2030 by SCAG (Southern California Association of Governments). An important strategy for the city planners working on future housing is the ability to identify parcels ripe for infill housing development. An ArcGIS Server-based application

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Prashant Jawalikar bd Systems, Inc. Regional Transit Database (RTD) of Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) of San Francisco Bay area contains more than 30000 transit stops, 3000 landmarks, 600 route shapes (route geometries) and various polygons representing agency service areas, fare zone maps, etc. These spatial datasets are created based on Thomas Brother’s maps. As Tele Atlas maps are more current MTC has selected TeleAtlas basemap for San Francisco bay area transit agencies. The basemap migration results in uneven displacement of the point, line and polygon data. Rectification of unevenly displacement of spatial data, so that it maintains the spatial reference with the TeleAtlas basemap, will be discussed. Strategies to rectify the data automatically using ArcObjects/VB.NET scripts as well as manual correction will be discussed. Phased approach to transition entire dataset from Thomas Brother’s to TeleAtlas basemap will be presented along with other lessons learned during the process. ID: 147 GIS analysis of potential future renewable energy generation

Mui Lay University of California, Davis California's population growth and energy demands will continue to increase in the coming years. The goal for California is to have 20% of the energy produced by the year 1210 come from renewable energy sources such as wind, biomass, solar, etc. GIS tools are currently used to evaluate potential future renewable generation within the state. ID: 148 Automatic Image Processing and Fusion for GIS Applications

Jacob Yadegar UtopiaCompression Corporation The availability of high-quality digital imagery with increasingly fine resolution has boosted the value of GIS but has also introduced new challenges. More importantly, importing, rectifying and registering highresolution imagery against existing images (for correction, update, and fusion) are highly subjective and labor-intensive tasks, which cannot be automated by the existing GIS tools in the market. This work describes a new software tool for achieving complete automation of the abovementioned tasks. The efficiency and effectiveness of the software suite is demonstrated by a case study in which GIS images (of Los Angeles area) with heterogeneous resolutions are automatically processed and fused for image/map updating. We show that deployment of the automated software suite will greatly reduce the production time (from days in manual processing to minutes of computer processing), providing more accurate and reliable results, and therefore ensuring user consistency within and across organizations. ID: 149 Community Impact Assessment using a GIS

Gary Lasky Caltrans Community Impact Assessment is the evaluation of the social and economic impacts of a proposed highway project on communities. A CIA is required of federallyfunded highway projects to ensure the equitable distribution of project impacts. The first step in a CIA is to define and profile a project study area and the surrounding region. Next, spatial and attribute data from Census, demographic, employment, business, road, traffic, and Land Use forecasts are secured, thanks to the availability of free, downloadable data from government sources. Finally, the impacts of the project, pro and con, are estimated for the future. GIS

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can have significant value in the production and analysis of a CIA. Advantages of GIS include: enhanced quality and consistency and improved understanding of the CIA analysis by decision makers and the public. ID: 150 Quickly Conveying Useful Information To Your Audience

Megan Sayles URS Corporation The value of GIS is not only measured in the magnitude of the data it can compare but also in the timeliness in which it can occur. URS Corporation utilizes GIS in many ways and my project demonstrates both of these qualities in the quantity of data layers used and the speed which an answer can be derived. Over 20 data layers were mapped on a convenient sized tabloid sheet in which significant biological constraints were easily observed. To meet requirements all areas of the project had to have an archeological survey in the last ten years. Several had been done over this time frame, but their entire extent was not known. By gathering all the survey boundaries into a GIS the gaps in survey coverage were quickly conveyed. At all stages of the project maps and information generated from the GIS were invaluable to all the interested parties. ID: 151 Silver Strike

James K. Crossfield Dept. of Civil and Geomaics Engineering and Construction, CSU, Fresno Geographic location has a direct bearing upon the probability of finding significant quantities of silver coin at banking institutions in California. Records detailing a comprehensive evaluation of over one million half dollars will be used. Correlations between median wage, average age, population density, education level and yield of silver coin in various cities and counties across a broad spectrum of central Califonia will be analyzed. Whether or not poorer, less well educated, sparsley populated areas are more likely to produce greater quantities of silver coin will be resolved. ID: 153 GeoSync: Low Cost Tool to Extract, Geocode and Load Spatial Data

Satinder Bhalla bd Systems,Inc County of Los Angeles needs to extract the data from remote departmental databases containing addresses, geocode addresses on the fly and add geocoded addresses to spatial repository. Data in the remote database changes frequently hence a tool which can automatically synchronizes the data from the source with central GIS repository was needed. A low cost extract, geocode and load [EGL] tool was developed. A .NET web application was developed to collect the user data and setup data synchronization task was created. Information about the remote database, field mappings, GIS repository was collected during the process of task setup. Synchronizer and Reporting services were developed to run pending tasks and reporting the results of completed task runs to users. Software Development, GIS and Project Management challenges faced while developing this application will be discussed. Scenarios in government or private industry where similar applications can be used will be presented. ID: 154 The Value Of GIS In A Mid-sized Engineering Firm: Bridging The Gap

Gavin O'Leary Provost & Pritchard Engineering, Inc Provost & Pritchard Engineering, Inc. began using GIS technologies five years ago as an alternative to CAD map creation. Attribute based spatial data was somewhat foreign to engineers and surveyors in the company. Showing the value of GIS technology in an engineering environment has been an ongoing education. GIS has

become a necessary tool to meet client needs, and has grown from basic map creation to supporting engineers in project tasks. Specific ways that GIS has become a valuable tool at our company will be discussed. These include GIS techniques for supporting land development master planning, survey grade GPS with attribute collection, municipal planning, and agricultural water facilities design. Techniques for integrating GIS with engineering projects will be discussed. Also, I will highlight lessons learned while ‘bridging the information gap’ between the two disciplines of engineering and geospatial data management. ID: 155 Spatial Reconciliation: How I put myself out of a job

Gloria Humble City of Palo Alto The City of Palo Alto developed two GIS databases because of differing departmental needs and project timing. The Engineering database had to be accurate to support infrastructure management regardless of how long its construction took. Planning needed a tool to support the City's Comprehensive Plan and couldn't wait. So Planning built a topologically correct but loosely positioned base map as an interim solution. In the subsequent years, each department built a rich set of thematic layers on their respective base maps. In 2006, when the more accurate engineering base map was finally complete, it became feasible to merge the two databases. The task included positional adjustments, data model changes, and unexpected political challenges. The result provides a consistent data set, reduced data maintenance efforts, and lower administrative costs due to a reduction in GIS support staff. This presentation outlines the issues that surfaced during this process and the applied solutions. ID: 156 Spatial Solutions as Small Business Opportunities

Jerry Platt University of Redlands Recently, the University of Redlands received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The grant program is a collection of initiatives that focus on spatial solutions to small business problems and opportunities. Features of the grant include professional growth and development of GIS expertise by faculty, development of a framework for GIS applications specific to small businesses operating within the Southern California “Inland Empire”, and outreach programs that includes local and national workshops, hosting an international conference, and development of a Small Business GIS website. ID: 158 Wiki GIS: Transition to a Distributed System

Craig Parada San José’s GIS is flexible, rapid reacting, and relatively inexpensive. This is because it is a confederation of users rather than a Central Geographic Information Center. The members contribute to, and draw from, a cooperatively maintained set of files. All of the members’ files are to be available to all of the participants, but data is “owned” by those who care about it most. No user can alter another member’s files. San José avoided the “big system” approach, and with it, the “big investment” hurdles and “big failure” risks. Spreading the ownership empowers the staff and all the participants. ID: 159 Mapping Planning Points of Dispersion and Populations in Santa Clara County

David Hill Santa Clara County Public Health Department The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has designated Mass Prophylaxis (MP) planning as a 'target capability' and national priority. Potential 'category A' bioterrorist agent diseases include anthrax, plague, smallpox, and tularemia. Speedy and appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis against inhalational anthrax may protect against what could cause 90% mortality among the exposed. The Santa Clara County Public Health

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Program Abstracts Department is assisting in coordination of POD planning, collaborating with 15 cities to create a comprehensive Mass Prophylaxis plan. Based on modeling and throughput calculations, we recommend that for every 20,000 persons, one stationary freestanding POD is made accessible. To date, cities have nominated a variety of facilities including community centers, schools, and corporate sites for use as PODs. Using ArcGIS, we represented population density by census tract and geocoded currently approved PODs in order to assist cities in prioritizing future nominations for POD locations. ID: 160 Wildfire Risk Information Product

Marcus Glass Sanborn Mapping Company The CWRIP is a thematic GIS data product (map) that describes the level of wildfire risk on a per pixel basis for all of California. Each pixel is 25m by 25m. A primary dataset, Wildfire Threat, defines the annual likelihood of a wildfire occurring. Threat is classified from Low to Extreme (i.e. Extreme represents <20 years for a fire to occur, etc.). Other supplemental data that describes wildfire fuels and fire history is also included. The CWRIP is required to help fire planners develop prevention and mitigation activities to reduce the risk to the public and property. The product tells you where wildfire is most likely to occur (which areas are most prone to a wildfire occurring). This information is used by planners to schedule mitigation efforts, such as hazardous fuels treatments, and to promote prevention, such as communicating defensible space to the public. The information will also aid local government in identifying wildfire prone areas and justifying funding from state and federal programs for mitigation through NFP and Pre-Disaster Mitigation grants. ID: 161 Pediatric Health in Santa Clara County: Challenges and Opportunities

Leah Vaughn Santa Clara County Department of Public Health Understanding Health Disparities in children; California Health Kids Survey ID: 162 Integrating High Resolution Imagery with ArcGIS for Urban Water Conservation

Andrew Lewis Sanborn Mapping Company Water conservation is quickly becoming a crucial issue, particularly in arid regions of the US. Growing populations and increased landscaping threaten to drain supplies. With California accounting for more than 20% of all irrigation in the US, now is the time to create a vision for effective water conservation. Sanborn uses a set of automated, statistical analyses to create detailed landcover maps using imagery from satellite or aerial platforms. Areas of landcover such as turf grass, shrubs, tree, bare ground, structures, and water features are all clearly identified. By overlaying parcel vectors on the maps, each parcel is analyzed to create a database of irrigated landcover types within each parcel. Integrating this data with local weather information and standard evapotranspiration models in Sanborn’s H2Observe application, analysts produce an accurate monthly estimate of ideal irrigation water use. Comparing estimates to actual water usage identifies customers using inefficient irrigation practices. ID: 163 California Tsunami Hazards: Science, Policy, and Management

Kevin Miller California Office of Emergency Services Since 1997 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (OES) have undergone the process of developing tsunami evacuation planning maps for the State of California. OES is managing the process of the inundation projection generation and

has developed a guidance document for use by all coastal counties and jurisdictions in the state. The guidance is intended to assist local governments in use of the inundation projections for evacuation planning, and in dissemination of tsunami watch and warning information within county as well as to the general public. Tsunami modeling was based on potential earthquake sources and hypothetical extreme undersea, near-shore landslide sources. Maximum credible run-up to a specific contour for each county was determined to be reasonable. Modeling was performed by the NOAA/OES-funded University of Southern California (USC) Tsunami Research Group and results were field-verified for accuracy. ID: 164 GIS & Computer Aided Dispatch - Help Where It's Needed

Charlie Cullen The City of Palo Alto The use of GIS and related technologies in concert with a Computer-Aided Dispatch system can significantly enhance emergency response. Palo Alto has begun to incorporate ANI/ALI cell call location information, in-vehicle GPS, and wireless LAN and WAN with its centralized and distributed GIS data and software to improve the ability of dispatchers to quickly and correctly identify caller locations, track and direct police and fire vehicles, and provide emergency responders with images and information about their destinations. Integrating these technologies while avoiding interdependence allows for improved yet failsafe emergency dispatch and response. ID: 165 GIS and Nevada County Government

Amber Beckler County of Nevada For over ten years, Nevada County Geographic Information Systems (NCGIS) has provided GIS services for thirty County departments and the Public, including web-based and desktop GIS applications; GPS; spatial and tabular data maintenance, creation, and integration; database development; business process documentation as it relates to GIS; and custom data analyses and map creation. Benefactors include law enforcement and emergency responders, transportation and public works, landuse planners, election officials, environmental resource managers, local agencies, and the Public. With ongoing enhancements to our spatial and tabular data warehouse and databases, NCGIS can build reliable applications that integrate a multitude of disparate County databases. County staff rely on GIS data and applications to complete their daily work. The applications and the data that drive them reduce staff time at the counter, reduce the number of trips to government offices by the Public, ensure reliable data analysis and reporting, and provide an overall integrating mechanism between County departments. ID: 168 Geospatial Wine Grape Quality Modeling and Differential Harvest for Precision Ag

Balaji Sethuramasamyraja California State University, Fresno Segregation of wine grapes based on quality has typically been accomplished by hand harvest and there is a growing need to mechanize the task during field harvest based on quality indicators. The typical quality indicators for red wine grapes are anthocyanin and brix. Anthocyanins contribute most of the color to red wine while brix estimate sugar content, which is commonly used to determine the time of harvest. Anthocyanin and Brix levels of geo-referenced field samples of Cabernet Sauvignon were measured using a portable near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer. Data was collected from 437 sampling points in a 45 acre vineyard near Lodi, California. Geospatial analysis of the anthocyanin data was used to produce a ‘high’ and ‘low’ quality map of the vineyard. The cut off anthocyanin concentration used to differentiate between high and low quality was 0.87 mg

anthocyanin/g fruit. Based on this map and a newly developed attachment, differential harvest was successfully demonstrated using commercial wine grape harvesters. ID: 169 GIS-Supported Environmental Due Diligence of over 900,000 Acres of Timberlands

Greg Stemler Geomatrix Consultants Vast acreage and the known presence of over 7,000 oil, gas and water injection wells on the proposed purchase lands rendered traditional environmental site assessment approaches and methods infeasible within a reasonable time frame or budget. Geomatrix applied a custom developed GIS-based screening tool with public-domain datasets to extract data critical to the environmental assessment. Criteria were developed to rank the more than 2000 parcels based on the extracted parametric data. The results were dynamically visualized in a series of web-broadcasts to facilitate the decision making process between the concerned parties. The use of this screening tool allowed Geomatrix to conduct a meaningful environmental assessment of this huge amount of timberland within only a few weeks. ID: 170 Spatial Information Resource Management: Reframing GIS Standards & Policies

Brian J. Cullis CH2MHill Advocates for adoption of GIS standards and policies often face daunting organizational challenges that can appear insurmountable. This presentation will introduce the 'spatial information resource' paradigm and use specific examples to show how this concept can be leveraged to effectively transform pessimistic senior decision-makers into your strongest advocates for growing and sustaining the use of GIS technologies through GIS standards and policies. ID: 171 Online Climate Variability Threshold Maps with Real-Time CIMIS Weather Data for Growers and Researchers

Kris Lynn-Patterson U.C. Kearney Ag Center Research shows that Olive Fly populations will die at one day of 105°F, and at lower temperatures for several days in a row. An interactive web-map site is being developed to bring climatic threshold maps which show the distribution of 3 days of 95°, 100° and 105°F max. temperature to growers and researchers for the purpose of making decisions about pesticide use. CIMIS weather stations will also be provided as a map layer with current maximum temperature attributes. ID: 173 Rapid Non-destructive Detection of Vine Water Status Using a Spectral Water Absorption Feature in the Near-infrared.

Susan Ustin University of California, Davis Irrigation scheduling is critical for vineyard management since it affects fruit yield and quality. We examined field-measured hyperspectral remote sensing data to estimate leaf water content, equivalent water thickness (EWT), and leaf water potential in a commercial vineyard of Vitis vinifera cv Pinot Noir. Correlations were high for EWT at the leaf level, while correlations at the canopy level were non-significant for many indexes. Nonetheless, different indexes were successful for pre-dawn and midday stem water potentials and for water status at the canopy level. These results support use of non-invasive hyperspectral data for monitoring vine water status which could improve efficiency of current methods.

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Program Abstracts ID: 174 Commercial Use of Images by the End Users in Agriculture

ID: 181 Trials and Triumphs in Converting Operations to ARCMAP

ID: 186 Implementation of Geospatial Technologies in U.C. Cooperative Extension: Challenges, Successes

Tim Stone Britz Fertilizers Inc Geo-referenced digital images have been in use as a commercial product by Britz Fertilizers, Inc. for over six years; high and low resolution data is cost effective which allows for better use of farming inputs.

Thomas Hawkins Department of Water Resources DWR’s Land Use Survey Program began decades ago using paper USGS maps as field sheets and “cutting and weighing” for analysis. Its transformed to a system using field computers, GPS, AUTOCAD, and ARC/INFO for digital mapping and GIS analysis. The latest transformation includes the replacement of AUTOCAD with ARCMAP. Addressed will be why we did it, how it got done, problems encountered, and the results.

Maggi Kelly UC Berkeley Geospatial technologies can be important for much of the work we do in Cooperative Extension. This talk discusses how geospatial tools are being used in UCCE, and some of the remaining challenges to their implementation.

ID: 175 Mapping Vineyard Water Balance

Lee F. Johnson Calif. State Univ., Monterey Bay; NASA Ames Research Center NASA’s Terrestrial Observation & Prediction System incorporates NDVI imagery and water balance simulation to map crop evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and leaf water potential in California’s North Coast vineyards. The information technology prototype is designed to help growers resolve the effects of climate, soil water holding capacity, and crop canopy vigor ID: 176 Correlation of Geo-referenced NDVI for Pistachios and Cotton with Plant Data and Soil Salinity

Blake Sanden University of California, Davis and Riverside Geo-referenced digital spectral imagery holds great promise for improved natural resources management; providing for potentially low-cost, high resolution data describing water use, crop/plant ecosystem vigor and variations in soil salinity/quality. However, results can be inconsistent. ID: 177 Soil Survey Information from USDA on the Internet

Edd Russell USDA-NRCS Knowledge of soil properties and behavior is essential in order to make any land use decisions. To facilitate this, the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service has now made almost all of its Soil Survey data available on the internet. ID: 178 "Soils to Go" for Cooperative Extension: Providing Soils Maps on DVD and the Internet

Jerry Schmierer University of California CA Kearney Agricultural Center and Jerry Schmierer, farm advisor, Colusa County for use by Cooperative Extension, growers, researchers and educators. The maps are available on DVD or as interactive web maps. ID: 179 Use of GIS Technology to Provide Information Retrieval and Analysis Capabilities for a UC Research and Extension Center

G. Montez University of California The University of California has nine Research and Extension Centers throughout the State that are used to provide land, labor and facilities for research and extension programs in agriculture and natural resources. Through the use of GIS technology, a comprehensive database of attributes for the facility can be assembled and used to support decision-making. ID: 180 GIS and the Irrigated Lands Program in the Kings River Watershed

Sonja Thiede Kings River Conservation District The Kings River Conservation District has been working for over 5 years to support the growers of the valley in meeting the terms of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Irrigated Lands Program. GIS has played a pivotal role in notifying landowners and fulfilling the monitoring and reporting requirements. Various maps, statistics and databases have been created in the process of meeting the conditions required under the Program.

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ID: 182 Creating an Enterprise GeoSpatial Data Integration System in Support of Domestic Security and Performance Management

William Holland GeoAnalytics, Inc. Food and agriculture have been identified as critical infrastructure for the security of our nation; and they’re potential targets for terrorism. The Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services (FDACS) is responsible for readiness in the event of both manmade and natural security threats that could involve agricultural-related human pathogens, animal or plant ID: 183 Online Climate Variability Threshold Maps with Real-Time CIMIS Weather Data for Growers and Researchers

Kris Lynn-Patterson U.C. Kearney Ag Center Research shows that Olive Fly populations will die at one day of 105°F, and at lower temperatures for several days in a row. An interactive web-map site is being developed to bring climatic threshold maps which show the distribution of 3 days of 95°, 100° and 105°F max. temperature to growers and researchers for the purpose of making decisions about pesticide use. CIMIS weather stations will also be provided as a map layer with current maximum temperature attributes. ID: 184 Building a GIS Portal

Robin Wood ScanControl, Inc. Artisan Farms is a distributed premium wine grape growing operation with strategic holdings throughout California. The company uses PDA and smartphone data collection tools to record everything from mealy bug trap locations to equipment utilization details. Data is stored in a central database where server based GIS is used to present consolidated data and deliver reports through a web accessible portal. The portal delivers maps showing real-time information for Yield Estimates and Harvest Planning among many other functions. Each time a map is opened the underlying database is queried to build the presentation completely automatically. ID: 185 Field Data Management and Utility in Mosquito Control GIS Applications

Jodi Holeman Consolidated Mosquito Abatement In 2004 the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District did a complete overhaul on its field data collection procedures. The result of the overhaul enabled the district to transition into GIS applictions used for mosquito control and surveillance with few problems. Mosquito and vector control programs require the treatment of sources located throught a defined geographic area. All activities conducted at these specific sites must recored as field data. The accurate and effecient collection of field data is essential to any vector control program. Our field data collection, management and utility in GIS has allowed us to make decisions and assements on vector control activities within our district.

ID: 187 Acquiring, Processing, and Using LiDAR Data

Moderator: Jim Ellis Ellis Geospatial This panel will provide up-to-date information for users of DEMs, images, and topographic maps derived from LiDAR technology. The experts will discuss the importance of different parameters and work processes to the derived products used in GIS and mapping applications. Lessons learned, case histories, capabilities & limitations, and costs of implementing LiDAR will be presented. The session is structured, beginning with 10-minute presentations by each expert followed by 20 minutes of audience questions Panelists: Randy Rhoads, Airborne 1 Corporation Devin Kelley, HJW GeoSpatial Matt Sagues, Marin County Open Space District, GIS Analyst Rune Storesund, Storesund Consulting ID: 188 GIS and Land Trusts

Moderator: Maegan Leslie Green Info Network The last decade has seen an enormous rise in the role of non-profit land trusts in the conservation of natural resources. In California, over 200 land trusts are active securing areas critical to maintaining biodiversity, agricultural land, scenic corridors and vistas and more. This panel will look at how this dynamic movement, responsible for the protection of millions of acres of land, uses GIS to accomplish its goals – what roles do different types of geospatial technology play in protecting threatened lands, how do large and small land trusts operate with GIS, and what are emerging needs? Panelists: Tom Scharfenberger, Conservation Consultant Ruskin Hartley, Executive Director, Save the Redwoods League Laura Mercer, Tri-Valley Conservancy ID: 189 Web GIS for Health and Environmental Justice

Moderator: Mike Byrne Office of Statewide Planning and Health Public health has grown dramatically as a central focus for policy, as new relationships between lifestyles, place and personal health have been uncovered. The health effects of living in suburban sprawl and near sources of pollution, the potential of poor neighborhoods to better organize their assets to respond to challenges, and many other issues are becoming core concerns for an ever-wider circle of interests. This panel will hear from three outstanding programs that have each applied web-based GIS in creative and effective ways to address these and related issues, with projects that use simple approaches as well as highly complex technical efforts. Panelists: Neal Richman, Neighborhood Knowledge California (UCLA) Janine Kupert, United Way of the Bay Area Don Taylor, California Children and Families Commission ID: 190 Overview of GIS and Environmental Protection

Moderator: Larry Orman Green Info Network The San Francisco Bay Area has tremendous environmental assets and a remarkable array of public interest organizations, engaged with issues ranging from the health of San Francisco Bay, the nature of

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Program Abstracts urban development and Greenbelt protection, and the availability of open lands for recreation, agriculture and the conservation of biodiversity. This panel will provide an overview of major and exciting new initiatives in these areas now being undertaken in the region, all significantly aided by GIS. Representatives of leading non-profit organizations will outline their vision and strategies, and talk about the role of geospatial technology in achieving them. Panelists: Bettina Ring, Bay Area Open Space Council Carey Knecht, Greenbelt Alliance Rainer Hoenicke, San Francisco Estuary Institute ID: 191 The Value of Spatial Statistics in Agriculture

Konstantin Krivoruchko ESRI ID: 192 Mapping the Urban Forest

Autodesk The tens of thousands of trees planted by the San Francisco Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Urban Forestry (BUF) and the nonprofit Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) not only beautify the city, but also help improve air quality, reduce noise and control storm water run-off. These groups have joined with Autodesk to develop a comprehensive, dynamic online map of the city’s urban forest. The result: an Urban Forest Mapping System that bridges existing systems and provides a technological foundation for collaboration and for engaging San Francisco residents in the greening of the city. The system is a hybrid platform of open source and proprietary mapping technologies, with the MapGuide Open Source technology platform at the center. Attend the session and learn how sharing data across teams and with the public have helped BUF and FUF better understand, plan and measure the impact of San Francisco’s urban forest. ID: 193 Geodatabase: New Flavors, New Capabilities; ArcGIS Server: Comprehensive Server-Based GIS

Danny Krouk & Justin Fan, ESRI CA/NV/HI Regional Office ESRI The 9.2 release of ArcGIS includes many enhancements to the Geodatabase. Come learn about the many new Geodatabase flavors between “personal” and “enterprise”. Also, at this release are many new capabilities such as Geodatabase Replication and Archiving that add to the palette of ArcGIS capabilities. ArcGIS Server provides a powerful and usable platform for further web-enabling your GIS operations. Displayoptimized web mapping, editing on the web, geoprocessing, and 3D services are among the many features that are easy to explore and offer exciting growth pathways for GIS and IT organizations. ID: 194 Baker Maps California: 163,707 square miles in two-hours

Michael Baker Jr. Learn about: - Creation of a geospatial index of statewide imagery and terrain geospatial datasets - Development of a Central Valley levee inventory - Flood Map Modernization Program and supporting technology - US-VISIT secure land border initiative and evaluation of land ports of entry. - Conflating summary real-time traffic data to a statewide street network - Development of a comprehensive statewide Spatial Data Infrastructure by private industry, including public land records - Results of a prioritized lists of core and supplemental data themes by the California geospatial community. - US Census Bureau initiatives to update the TIGER dataset in advance of the 2010 census. - and more

ID: 195 Terrainscapes™ 2007: California – NEXTMap® USA for California Geospatial Professionals Intermap Terrainscapes™ 2007: California is a two-hour seminar focused on NEXTMap® USA - Intermap's new nationwide 3D terrain elevation mapping program. The event features users’ experiences and demonstrations as well as a NEXTMap® USA program overview. Seminar topics include: NEXTMap® USA - a new base map for California, User Perspectives, 3D Visualization, Demo by CyberCity, Using NEXTMap® USA – California data in your applications ID: 196 Tele Atlas® GIS Data Summit

TeleAtlas Tele Atlas will provide a 60 minute session addressing data trends in GIS across multiple markets, with an overview of the programs and technologies of today and the influence on GIS for state and local government mapping tomorrow. Specific discussion areas include: • Strategic initiatives in mobile mapping: • New developments and initiatives in automotive navigation • Integration of GIS data and applications in mobile wireless devices • Tele Atlas®/ONE -- The value of a collaborative framework for Government Enterprise GIS: • Overview of key California initiatives and partnerships Tele Atlas will provide insight into the challenges that all landbase users face in updating and managing change and providing consistent information for GIS users. The cascading benefits and application choices relating to the above topics are great -- bringing operational efficiencies and transforming GIS into a more powerful tool for the enterprise. ID: 197 Short Course: The Value of Remote Sensing for Assessing Vegetation and New Horizon's for Precision Agriculture

Dr. Jack Paris EarthMap Solutions ID: 198 Planning for the Next Generation GIS in Government

Moderator: Malcolm Adkins Michael Baker Jr. There have been significant advances in the move from proprietary GIS software solutions that were expensive and siloed to a current state where web services, open source, and dynamic visualization tools are impacting organizations with mature GIS systems. These Next Generation solutions are introducing mapping to millions at rates not previously seen and re-setting market expectations for traditional GIS. This panel discussion will explore how state, regional, and local government GIS implementations will be impacted by the next generation of technology. Panelists: Blair Adams, City and County of San Francisco Oscar Jarquin, Caltrans John Huie, Contra Costa County Joe Concannon, Sacramento Council of Governments

ID: 201 An Urban Oasis in the Woods: A GIS Analysis

Michael Webster San Francisco State University BAAMA Scholarship Winner ID: 202 Application of SEBAL® for Improved Water Management in Agricultural, Natural, and Urban Environments

Byron Clark SEBAL North America, Inc. The Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL®) uses satellite-based sensors and meteorological data to solve the energy balance at the earth's surface. The primary outputs are spatiallydistributed water consumption (actual evapotranspiration) and biomass production. ID: 203 Habitat quality and landscape permeability for San Joaquin kit fox in the San Joaquin Valley of California

Scott Phillips CSU Stanislaus, Endangered Species Recovery Program We use a habitat suitability model to estimate habitat quality for the San Joaquin kit fox in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Our model estimates habitat quality based on the land use compatibility, an index of terrain ruggedness, and vegetation structure based on annual rainfall. The model is used to map areas of relatively high quality habitat. We extend our model to estimate habitat permeability between areas of suitable habitat. ID: 204 NDVI Use in Viticulture

Jay Hutton ID: 205 The Benefits of Enlisting Interdisciplinary Teams in the Development of High Order GIS Projects Reg Parks Parks Vineyard Trellis Systems Data for complex GIS projects are increasingly required to be of the highest quality, precision and spatial accuracy. Developing a high quality, high accuracy spatial database involves systematic, stringent measurement methods. Despite the increasing ease of access to terrestrial and satellitebased measurement devices; interdisciplinary teams of measurement experts and data analysts will develop and publish the highest quality spatial data. Failing that, technicians and analysts with comprehensive training in measurement science will become the next most likely providers. Once developed, these data will support advanced statistical and analytic methods and provide high order results. ID: 206 Multi-Level GIS Applications

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ID: 199 Using GIS to Identify Potential Cooridors Utilized by North American Badgers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Counties

Tanya Diamond San Jose State University BAAMA Scholarship Winner ID: 200 Contra Costa Emergency Services within Quake Zones

Catrina Christian Diablo Valley College BAAMA Scholarship Winner

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13 Years of CalGIS 1st Annual Long Beach — 1995 “Organizational, Information Sharing, Enterprise GIS” 2nd Annual San Francisco — 1996 “Practical GIS Applications for Californians” 3rd Annual Los Angeles — 1997 “GIS: Affecting Community & Society” 4th Annual Visalia — 1998 “To Boldly Go GIS”

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9th Annual Palm Springs — 2003 “The Evolving State of GIS: Putting the World in the Palm of Your Hands” 10th Annual San Jose — 2004 “The Golden State of GIS”

11th Annual Bakersfield — 2005 “GIS In The Mainstream...Where California Flows Together” 12th Annual Santa Barbara — 2006 “Vision - Direction - Leadership”

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